Strike From The Sea

Oct 24, 2024 10:28 PM

Author:Douglas Reeman

Strike From The Sea

INDO-CHINA 1941.

Cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world's largest and most dangerous submarine - the French Soufrière. A rich prize for the enemy, the British navy must capture her for themselves before she is used against them.

For Commander Robert Ainslie, it represents the greatest challenge of his career. He must take the foreign submarine and use her against the enemy in the defence of Singapore . . .

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A thrilling tale of naval warfare from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master of naval fiction, who served with the Royal Navy on convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the North Sea. He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic Wars.

Reviews

Probably the most intelligent noir ever written...The situation is surreal, the psychologizing profound, and the eerie inwardness trapped in Bowen's distinctive prose resonates inside a peculiar silence that fills the reader's heart with dread

—— Los Angeles Times

One of three quintessential London 'war' novels, the others being Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. No other novel conjures the spooky solemnity of the Blitz so adroitly

—— Time Out

A tensely charged story of betrayal

—— Independent

Marvellously witty, poetic and socially perceptive novels... she is bang on form with The Heat of the Day

—— John Bayley , Independent

This world reminds you of both Henry James and Graham Greene...a world both placid and violently fractured...Bowen's prose is crisp and precise, but also suggestive and haunting...She combines moral refinement and pitiless but compasionate understanding

—— Sunday Times

A haunting novel of bad faith and betrayal

—— Guardian

Brilliant descriptions of London during the Blitz

—— Spectator

[Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent

—— V. S. Pritchett

Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts

—— Time

Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf

—— Atlantic Monthly

a book of signal wit and beauty that shows many ways of being a woman under intolerable strain... The electrifying ubiquity of danger - the novel is set in London under the Blitz - summons tenderness and the appetite for life. London itself breathes, turns and glows throughout

—— Candia McWilliam , The Lady

He [Anthony] hooks you in with his deep, complex characters; he meticulously sets the scene

—— www.thebookbag.co.uk

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