1. The Blooding of the Guns
2. Sixty minutes for St George
3. Patrol to the Golden Horn
4. Storm Force to Narvik
5. The Last Lift from Crete

6. All the Drowning Seas
7. A Share of Honour
8. The Torch Bearers
9. The Gatecrashers

Blurbs

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 Loofi'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...
With Paul Everard's submarine landing a double agent in Sicily — yet another ploy to mislead the enemy — and Jack Everard a fugitive POW hiding out with a terrified but compliant frau in the heart of Germany, The Torch Bearers shows this family of incorrigible mavericks at their exhilarating best.
The Torch Bearers is based on actual fact: there was a weakly-defended convoy homebound from Freetown, which crossed all the 'Torch' invasion routes and drew the U-boats after it.

Although The Torch Bearers stands on its own as a novel, it is also the eighth in the Everard series of naval adventures, which started with Nick as a somewhat bloody-minded midshipman at Jutland in 1916. Although fictional, each story's setting is historically and technically accurate. As an Observer reviewer stated recently, 'For inside knowledge of the corporate soul of a fighting ship, Fullerton is the admiral of the moderns.'

The author

Alexander Fullerton is well-qualified to write novels with a naval background; he comes from a naval family, and went to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth at the age of 13 in 1937. He went to sea as a midshipman at the end of 194i, serving first in the Mediterranean — in the battleship Queen Elizabeth, cruiser Orion and destroyer Hero, before joining submarines at Malta — and later in the North Sea and Far East; he ended the war as a lieutenant with a mention-indespatches for distinguished service. He resigned from the navy in 1949, and worked for ten years in South Africa. During this period, he had his first novel published — SURFACE! — based on his experience as gunnery and torpedo officer on the submarine Seadog. SURFACE! has so far sold nearly a million copies around the world. Since his return to England in 1958, he has published other kinds of fiction — including the novels CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE PUBLISHER and OTHER MEN'S WIVES — but is now `back at sea' for good.