Band of Brothers

Alexander Fullerton

apr 2017. · Canelo

O ovoj e-knjizi

A WWII historical thriller about a British naval officer on a mission to sabotage a German submarine.
 
It is early autumn 1943 and a German U-boat supply ship is sailing under heavy escort from Le Havre to the Atlantic. A mixed force of torpedo boats from Allied Coastal Forces is ordered to intercept and sink her.

Navigator Ben Quarry has other worries. His girlfriend, Rosie, is set on returning to occupied France as an SOE agent, and his former mistress, now the wife of his CO, Bob Stack, has embarked on an affair with another officer. Ben’s got to tell him.

But in the heat of battle, survival is everything . . . Praise for the writing of Alexander Fullerton: “Impeccable in detail and gripping in impact.” —Irish Independent

“The research is unimpeachable and the scent of battle quite overwhelming.” —Sunday Times
 
“Has the ring of truth and the integrity proper to a work of art.” —The Daily Telegraph 
 
“The prose has a real sense of urgency, and so has the theme. The tension rarely slackens.” —The Times Literary Supplement

O autoru

Alexander Fullerton was a bestselling author of British naval fiction, whose writing career spanned over fifty years. He served with distinction as gunnery and torpedo officer of HM Submarine Seadog during World War Two. He was a fluent Russian speaker, and after the war served in Germany as the Royal Navy liaison with the Red Army.

His first novel, Surface!, was written on the backs of old cargo manifests. It sold over 500,000 copies and needed five reprints in six weeks. Fullerton is perhaps best known though for his nine-volume Nicholas Everard series, which was translated into many languages, winning him fans all round the world. His fiftieth novel, Submariner, was published in 2008, the year of his death.