Book description
Commander Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for
pressing home an attack against impossible odds. Few survived, and
crimson ribbon remains a haunting symbol of the sacrifice of ship and men.
Now, as captain of the crack Tribal Class destroyer H. M.S.
Hakka, Martineau must once again call from ordinary seamen the
ultimate in courage, and prepare to defend to the death vital convoys
to Russia. There is no hiding place in these bitter Arctic seas, where
a pitiless enemy awaits a fatal rendezvous. All are heroes, and no man
and no ship is immortal.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the
Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his
own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring
Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
