Convoy - Softcover
A deadly game of cat and mouse unravels its way out of this spine tingling war story as Lieutenant Yorke must find an answer to one vital question: how are German U-Boats sinking merchant ships from inside the convoys? In this gripping saga of heroism and intrigue, Yorke discovers the fate of one entire convoy. Only his wit and daring can lead to its survival and his.
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Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was born in 1925 into an ancient Cornish seafaring family. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen and spent much of his early life at sea. He was torpedoed during the Second World War and his resulting spinal injuries plagues him for the rest of his life. Towards the end of the war he turned to jouralism becoming the Naval and Defence Correspondent for the London Evening News. Encouraged by Hornblower creator CS Forester, he began writing fiction using his own experiences in the Navy and his extensive historical reseacrh as a basis. In 1965 he wrote 'Ramage', the first of his highly successful series of novels following the exploits of the heroic Lord Nicholas Ramage during the Napoleonic Wars. He continued to live aboard boats whenever possible and this was where he wrote the majority of his novels. Dudley Pope died in 1997 aged seventy one. 'The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower' - Daily Mirror
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In November 1942, Royal Navy Lieutenant Ned Yorke is recovering the use of his action-damaged left hand and falling in love with his nurse. Chafing at inactivity, Ned is called to Whitehall and the Anti-Submarine Intelligence Unit. Led by suave Captain Watts, ASIU is in the thick of the Battle of the Atlantic, where the Germans are sinking ships faster than the Allies can replace them. ASIU is especially worried by a new twist: lone Nazi subs are wreaking major havoc on Allied convoys from inside the convoys. Ned thinks he's found how the Germans manage this, but he must join a Freetown-bound convoy to spy on a supect neutral ship and, somehow, foil "the Insider." Pope (Decoy, etc.) has, as usual, given us fine wartime color at sea and in London, a keen depiction of the military bureaucracy, credible characters (including a regrettably brief appearance by Ned's mothersophisticated in "a kind and practical way," calmly braving wartime London) and a lively plot.
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0552113557
- ISBN 13 9780552113557
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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CONVOY. ( #4 in the Swashbuckling Hero, Lieutenant Ned Yorke, Buccaneer, & Royal Navy Series ]
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Painted Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. 352 pages! "It is one man's job to find out. Leaving a bomb-battered London behind him, Lieutenant Yorke, newly-drafted into the Admiralty Intelligence Unit, returns to sea with one of the threatened convoys. Yorke swiftly discovers that the fate of the whole convoy - and his survival - depend on his daring and quickness of wit." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 1310-4
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