Convoy North

1st. 1987

George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited

London

ISBN 0 297 79148 6

A green cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Very Good condition in a Very Good unclipped dust wrapper.

The author

Born in 1920 his obituary appeared in the Daily Telegraph 26.07.96. He joined the Royal Navy as a signalman in 1939 and served throughout the Second World War in a variety of ships, including the cruiser HMS Vindictive, the ocean boarding vessel LARGS, and the escort carrier HMS RAVAGER, ending the war as a lieutenant, RNVR. His first novel was published in 1957. He went on to become one of the fifty most read authors of the British lending library system, annually qualifying for the £6,000 maximum payable sum for Public Lending Rights.

Blurb

The betrayal of a personal friend is the dilemma that Commodore John Mason Kemp faces when his convoy sails via Iceland for the`grim winter passage of Norway's North Cape and the bitter seas of northern Russia.
Carrying supplies and munitions to the Russian forces and weathering the arctic conditions, the convoy braves German air and sea attacks. As the damage and casualties grow, so the tension of the men above and below decks increases. Aboard the Hardraw Falls, from which Kemp coordinates the convoy, relationships between the closely confined crew are uneasy; conditions are difficult, tempers are short and each man has his own preoccupations.
When he receives orders to embark a German agent captured in Norway, Kemp little suspects that the spy is one of his peace-time liner passengers and a personal friend. Nor does he learn immediately that he must use the friendship to gain information – and that, on account of certain political involvements, the German is to be handed over to the Russians to face certain torture and death.
In this second novel about convoys, Philip McCutchan, well-known for his `Halfhyde' and `Cameron' series, has created a tense and authentic picture of war-time life at sea.

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