The Torch Bearers

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 Looff'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....

  • Author: Alexander Fullerton
  • Title: The Torch Bearers
  • Series: The Everard Naval Series
  • First Published by: M.Joseph
  • First Published Format: HC
  • First Published Date: September 1983
  • ISBN-10: 0718122763
  • ISBN-13: 9780718122768

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