It’s another thrilling naval adventure for Marcus Baxter! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Chris Durbin, Douglas Reeman and Antoine Vanner.
About the Book
Beware the enemy in disguise…
Winter, 1914
Lieutenant Marcus Baxter is working in the supply department at HM Dockyard Devonport, when word arrives that the German East Asia Squadron has destroyed a British squadron at the battle of Coronel.
Baxter seizes an opportunity to impress the First Sea Lord, Jackie Fisher, during a snap inspection of the dockyard and secures an appointment to HMS Astute, a scout cruiser, which is being sent to join the squadron in the South Atlantic.
Surviving a storm in the mid-Atlantic, Astute encounters what appears to be an American liner behaving oddly off the coast of South America. But Baxter quickly realises she is in company and trying to hide a German light cruiser – and is, most likely, a German ship employing a ruse de guerre.
After an intense engagement, which sees the Astute fleeing along the coast from Montevideo for emergency repairs, Baxter once again encounters the suspicious liner. And this time he is determined not to let it get away.
Baxter risks everything to climb aboard, and makes a shocking discovery inside the ship, which confirms his suspicions.
He needs to reach the safety of the Falklands before any intelligence falls into the wrong hands. But with the enemy on his tail, the race along the South Atlantic won’t be an easy one…
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