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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.
In these routine but readable WW II submarine adventures, the only novelty is the submersion of Britain's midget four-man subs, which were used to distract the Nazis in Norway from the D-Day invasion buildup in 1944. The action begins when the Germans hide their new rocket on a ship in a fjord - but also on board are many Norwegian prisoners. The X-16 minisub's commander, Lt. David Seaton, swallows his humanism and blasts the ship to the bottom. His second assignment is to return to that very ship, recover a secret device from it, and pick up a defecting scientist. Seaton emerges thoroughly scraped but not scrapped. His third mission: blow up an underwater U-boat pen and rocket-launching site on the French coast. The two love stories back on shore are sugar-free, as is the stout, stolid tale-spinning under the frigid North Atlantic. (Kirkus Reviews)
