1st. 1970 Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London ISBN 0 09 103580 5

A black cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine in Very Good condition. In a repaired but sound unclipped dust wrapper . An inscription scrawled across the front free endpaper.

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The author

Douglas Reeman joined the Navy in 1941. He did convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea, and later served in motor torpedo boats. As he says, `I am always asked to account for the perennial appeal of the sea story, and its enduring interest for people of so many nationalities and cultures. It would seem that the eternal and sometimes elusive triangle of man, ship and ocean, particularly under the stress of war, produces the best qualities of courage and compassion, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the conflict...The sea has no understanding of righteous or unjust causes. It is the common enemy, respected by all who serve on it, ignored at their peril.'

Blurb

THE GREATEST ENEMY
Douglas Reeman

Douglas Reeman's novels of the sea have been acclaimed internationally as the work of a master storyteller who has few equals writing today. His narrative power and command of situation and back-ground are displayed at their most striking in this magnificent story of conflict and epic adventure.
When Lieutenant-Commander Rex Standish joins the frigate HMS Terrapin as executive officer he imagines he can see in her the final collapse of his life and hopes. In her early days the Terrapin had been part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic, but a quarter of a century later she is ready for the breaker's yard.
Then, unheralded and unknown, Commander Hector Dalziel arrives to become the Terrapin's last captain. To begin with, his drive and fanatical pride in the ship are treated with amusement or contempt —but in the Gulf of Thailand Dalziel's old-style patriotism, his conviction that the undeclared war between East and West is nearing a new flashpoint, soon bring the reality of near disaster. When Dalziel takes the Terrapin to the final encounter they have only their own resources to draw upon, yet from their weakness they discover a strength which most had forgotten existed.

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