An Act of War Author:Brian Callison A Russian destroyer illegally boards a British freighter in international waters off Iceland; the British respond by sending a warship into the Norwegian Sea. Her mission? To seek out, stop, board, and then -- having established a principle -- release the first Russian merchantman she chances upon. But a miscalculation results in the death of th... more »e captain of the Soviet cargo ship. The stakes escalate.
Brevet Cable, the most irregular of British naval officers, is called in to test the Soviets, who have closed the Baltic to British shipping. Commanding British Venturer, a specially outfitted freighter, Cable is overtaken by the Russian Navy. After being escorted to the Baltic port of Ahldenstadt and contemptuously returned to London without his ship, Cable discovers his nightmare adventure has only begun.
The apparently innocent cargo ship he had sailed eastward a few weeks before conceals a threat more horrific, more destructive than any aircraft or any missile-borne weapon could deliver. Cable is put under orders to recover his ship. Under cover of an ingeniously fomented neo-Nazi uprising, the intrepid Cable sets out on a mission of drama and explosive violence, with the lives of millions of ordinary people as the price of failure.
This is Brian Callison at his best. The pace is relentless, the situation hair-raisingly real, the characters alive. The author brilliantly captures the mood of the Cold War as well as the mood of the sea, with all its undercurrents.« less
ISBN-13: 9780525050230 ISBN-10: 052505023X Publication Date: 1977 Pages:206 Edition:1st American ed Rating: