The title is not great. The story is so full of incident it becomes schematic, with little room for character. It ends abruptly. Usually, I like how these old books are around 120, 130 pages. Modern books are so bloated by comparison, loose and not edited hard enough. These are written to a fixed format. But in this case the author has crammed so much in the book is a little compromised.
Even so, many details ring true, and I confess I found it adequate entertainment. But the bar is pretty low — I am an easy mark for such stories. Where others watch police procedurals or murder mysteries, I read these old stories. Like a TV mystery, you know what’s going to happen in broad terms, but the details always differ. The detective will, in the end, solve the murder.
This tells the story of a British antisubmarine group — sloops and corvettes, led by a sole destroyer — hunting for a German submarine wolf pack. Intrigue about a Nazi ‘political’ on the crew of the lead sub upsets the apple cart, and other incidents occur, and then it all ends.
I cannot recommend it, really, unless you’re already a reader of such books; and in truth what are the odds you’d ever see a copy anyway?
DSPACE 