An action-packed World War Two naval thriller! Perfect for fans of Douglas Reeman, Frederick Forsyth, Clive Cussler and Philip Kerr.
A Nazi saboteur and a British seaman play a deadly game of treachery and espionage…
Senegal, 1942
Merchant seaman John Rennie survived a torpedo attack only to be interred in a French prison camp on the isolated Island of Thieves.
Here he makes the acquaintance of dissident French naval officer John-Paul Mercier, and with the help of Mercier’s wife, they stage a daring escape attempt.
It goes disastrously wrong. They have been betrayed, but by who?
Algiers, 1943
As an uneasy city braces itself for civil war, the navy desperately hunts a Nazi spy nicknamed ‘Emperor’ and his deadly cache of explosives.
As John Rennie finds the trail of the Senegal traitor, it seems he could also hold the key to stopping ‘Emperor’. But will he succeed?
THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS is an authentic wartime naval thriller: military action and adventure during the Second World War.
Genre: Thriller
A Nazi saboteur and a British seaman play a deadly game of treachery and espionage…
Senegal, 1942
Merchant seaman John Rennie survived a torpedo attack only to be interred in a French prison camp on the isolated Island of Thieves.
Here he makes the acquaintance of dissident French naval officer John-Paul Mercier, and with the help of Mercier’s wife, they stage a daring escape attempt.
It goes disastrously wrong. They have been betrayed, but by who?
Algiers, 1943
As an uneasy city braces itself for civil war, the navy desperately hunts a Nazi spy nicknamed ‘Emperor’ and his deadly cache of explosives.
As John Rennie finds the trail of the Senegal traitor, it seems he could also hold the key to stopping ‘Emperor’. But will he succeed?
THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS is an authentic wartime naval thriller: military action and adventure during the Second World War.
Genre: Thriller
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