It isn't enough that, as a British seaman, you have to fight the Germans and the Italians, but now you have to be afraid of your own side too. Why? Because you happen to be at sea in a U-Boat doing undercover missions.
And because there is a time limit to how long you will be effective, before the Germans find out one of their submarines is under British control, you go on one mission after another with very little break in between.
And eventually the tension starts to get at you... You snap at your friends, take unnecessary risks and your nerves begin to give out. Then the real fun begins....
Another delightful naval story from a real British seaman who has no problem in killing off the characters you have learned to love, because that's the way it really was.
And because there is a time limit to how long you will be effective, before the Germans find out one of their submarines is under British control, you go on one mission after another with very little break in between.
And eventually the tension starts to get at you... You snap at your friends, take unnecessary risks and your nerves begin to give out. Then the real fun begins....
Another delightful naval story from a real British seaman who has no problem in killing off the characters you have learned to love, because that's the way it really was.
Just for the record, this is FICTION...!
Steven Marshall has seen the horrors of submarine warfare first-hand. Now, he's been put in charge of a captured German U-boat, and he and his crew have a top secret mission to fulfill. The catch: his own Royal Navy comrades don't know he's one of them, and the Germans are figuring out one of their subs is behaving strangely. Marshall has no friends to rely on. More even than the usual submarine commander, he is entirely on his own.
Douglas Reeman keeps finding new twists and turns to make his war-at-sea novels entertaining, and in this one, the psychological terrors of submarine warfare are magnified by the fact that sometimes it's your own Navy dropping depth bombs on you. By my count, this is Reeman's fourteenth novel, and he's definitely got his craft figured out by this point. You'll be drawn into this one.
Douglas Reeman keeps finding new twists and turns to make his war-at-sea novels entertaining, and in this one, the psychological terrors of submarine warfare are magnified by the fact that sometimes it's your own Navy dropping depth bombs on you. By my count, this is Reeman's fourteenth novel, and he's definitely got his craft figured out by this point. You'll be drawn into this one.
