The Torch Bearers by Alexander Fullerton
It is the autumn of 1942; Captain Sir Nicholas Everard has a convoy to escort, a big, slow convoy with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. U-boat pack commander Max Looff can hardly believe his luck. His nerve is going and he knows it: but now he has a chance in a million to annihilate an entire convoy and win the Fuhrer's highest approbation. Like trailing a lump of raw meat across shark-infested waters - that was the idea. For while Looff's U-boats devour Nick's convoy, the 'Torch' invasion forces slip safely through the Gibraltar Strait. But then the sacrificial convoy is joined by a limping passenger ship that might have Kate on board - his own newly-wedded wife in a doomed convoy, U-boat bait...
'His action passages are superb and he never puts a period foot wrong' - The Observer 'The accuracy and flair of Forester at his best' - Irish Times
Alexander Fullerton's first novel SURFACE! Sold half a million copies and the Nicholas Everard series of navel adventures secured his reputation as 'the admiral of the moderns'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316852968 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316852961 |
| Title | The Torch Bearers |
| Author | Alexander Fullerton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2001-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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