The grand admiral of the high seas adventure novel is Philip McCutchan, author of nearly 100 novels. Now, leading the first trade paperback edition of any of McCutchan's work, Convoy North portrays the popular Commodore John Mason Kemp battling World War II's German air and sea attacks in the waters of Norway's North Cape.
Royal Navy Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is assigned as second-in-command of the heavy cruiser Viceroy and ordered to a volcanic island that has recently surfaced in the north Pacific. The Admiralty hopes to claim the island for the Crown and establish an outpost there, but the hostile Russians have other ideas and the wily Japanese are prepared to carry out their own agenda.
With the onset of the Great War, Tom Chatto enters the Royal Navy Reserve and acquires a commission as a lieutenant. He soon acquires command of his ship when his captain and first lieutenant are shot down.
Leaving Malta en route to Ceylon, Kemp's convoy makes its way to Alexandria and to the Suez Canal. Attack from air and sea is always close at hand, but now a far greater fear grips the confoy the spectre of cholera. Philip McCutchan's high-seas adventures charge onward, full steam ahead.
When E.J. Cargill, an American racketeer on a visit to London, receives a phone call at a Park Lane Hotel and drives into Stepney, he disappears. James Packard's job is to track down Flash Donovan, an American mobster who has sworn to get Cargill.
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