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| Alan Evans"SHIP OF FORCE"3rd. David Cochrane Smith book! |
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Ship of Force 1979 |
A black cloth bound book with bright gilt lettering to the spine which is very lightly bumped top and bottom - VERY GOOD condition. The VERY GOOD dust wrapper is clipped and has a small area of surface damage which can be seen in the illustrations below to the right of the "o" in 'force' on the spine area of the wrapper. Wrapper now in protective sleeve. £12.00 plus Postage & Packing |
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Jacket blurb
Ship of Force - ALAN EVANS
`SchwerttrZiger!' It is the summer of 1917, Britain is losing the war against the U-boats and Commander David Cochrane Smith listens to the delirious mumbling of a dying U-boat commander: `Swordbearer'.
Smith believes it is the code name for an operation, a threat to Britain, but nobody will listen to him. The threat haunts him. He meets a wild, beautiful, tragic girl and she solves a tiny part of the mystery, enough to set a clock ticking, counting down. Smith has come home with a bloody victory to his credit but he is still under suspicion of being reckless, a wild man, at best just lucky. He believes the answer to the U-boat lies in convoys but he is given a flotilla 'to take offensive action against U-boats and bases'. The flotilla turns out to be one ancient destroyer, a turtle-back 'thirtyknotter' known as 'Bloody Mary'. It is backed up by a `ship of force', but that is no more than a monitor, near-new and with fifteen-inch guns. Her engines are defective, she is slow and spends more time in the dockyard than at sea.
The flotilla is a sick joke; the two ships are the lepers of the Dover Patrol. With them Smith has to take on shore batteries and bigger, faster enemy destroyers. He has to fight the hostility of his commanding officer and is plunged into the world of espionage behind the enemy lines. Through it all the mystery behind `Schwerttriiger' lures him on until he stakes his career and his life in a desperate attempt to solve it.
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