From Dust Jacket This is a thrilling book about 'men who have rubbed off everything but simplicity and honesty, men with no camouflage, decent men, kindly men, brave men; men who respect their God and yet laugh with Him; mild little men but men who, when they are stirred to a cause, are the most militant group in America.' The Devil and the Deep is a penetrating, deeply moving novel about the merchant seamen in this war.