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Nicholas Everard Saga #8
The Torch Bearers
The trap is laid. Now, Nick Everard must wait for the U-boats to arrive…
Autumn 1942: Sir Nicholas Everard, Captain of HMS Harbinger, has a convoy to big and slow, with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. This will not be an easy mission.
Meanwhile, U-boat pack commander Max Looff can hardly believe his luck. His nerve is going and he knows but now he has a one-in-a-million chance to annihilate an entire convoy.
Little does Looff know, however, that Everard and his ships are designed to distract the Germans from the real ‘Torch’ invasion forces. The game is on.
For readers of Alexander Kent, Julian Stockwin and C S Forester, this is a thrilling tale of gallantry and determination in the face of enormous danger.Praise for The Nicholas Everard Naval Thrillers
‘The prose has a real sense of urgency, and so has the theme. The tension rarely slackens.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘The research is unimpeachable and the scent of battle quite overpowering.’ The Sunday Times
‘The accuracy and flair of Forester at his best… carefully crafted, exciting and full of patiently assembled technical detail that never intrudes on a good narrative line’ Irish Times
Autumn 1942: Sir Nicholas Everard, Captain of HMS Harbinger, has a convoy to big and slow, with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. This will not be an easy mission.
Meanwhile, U-boat pack commander Max Looff can hardly believe his luck. His nerve is going and he knows but now he has a one-in-a-million chance to annihilate an entire convoy.
Little does Looff know, however, that Everard and his ships are designed to distract the Germans from the real ‘Torch’ invasion forces. The game is on.
For readers of Alexander Kent, Julian Stockwin and C S Forester, this is a thrilling tale of gallantry and determination in the face of enormous danger.Praise for The Nicholas Everard Naval Thrillers
‘The prose has a real sense of urgency, and so has the theme. The tension rarely slackens.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘The research is unimpeachable and the scent of battle quite overpowering.’ The Sunday Times
‘The accuracy and flair of Forester at his best… carefully crafted, exciting and full of patiently assembled technical detail that never intrudes on a good narrative line’ Irish Times
382 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Alexander Fullerton
65 books30 followersAlexander Fullerton (1924–2008) was a British author of naval and other fiction. Born in 1924 in Suffolk and brought up in France, he was a cadet during the years 1938-1941 at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of thirteen. He went to sea serving first in the battleship Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean, and spent the rest of the war at sea - mostly under it, in submarines.
Fullerton's first novel SURFACE! sold over 500,000 copies. Then he worked on the 9-volume Nicholas Everard series that made his reputation.
Series:
* Nicholas Everard Saga
* Rosie Ewing
Source: Wikipedia
Fullerton's first novel SURFACE! sold over 500,000 copies. Then he worked on the 9-volume Nicholas Everard series that made his reputation.
Series:
* Nicholas Everard Saga
* Rosie Ewing
Source: Wikipedia
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May 23, 2018
This series has followed Nick Everard and his family through two world wars. Nick is now Captain RN and in command of a destroyer escorting Atlantic convoy. Needless to say he is drawn into a subterfuge involving Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa in November 1942. The voyage has Nick and his crew fending off the attentions of a U-Boat pack. Meanwhile his son Paul is serving aboard a submarine on the Malta station involving secret agents and a part in the coastal landings. While this is going on Jack, having been capture during a commando attack, part of the last adventure A Share of Honour, is now a prisoner of war and not content with his lot. Has he now been caught with his trousers down?
These books are all good gung-ho boys own stuff and great reads for those that enjoys this action stuff. Only one more book in this series.
These books are all good gung-ho boys own stuff and great reads for those that enjoys this action stuff. Only one more book in this series.
June 30, 2025
I read this as a one off book and that's not a good idea. It is part of a series about a family and the totally unlinked storylines of three brothers in the war are incongruous.
July 5, 2016
A great read
In this book 4 of this series we see Captain Everard task with the job of shepherding a convey of ships from Freetown to Gibraltar. He is given limited help, facing a pack of u-boats lead by a German ace from attacks on other convies. We see that Nick also has to lead knowing that his own wife maybe on one of the ships.
In this book 4 of this series we see Captain Everard task with the job of shepherding a convey of ships from Freetown to Gibraltar. He is given limited help, facing a pack of u-boats lead by a German ace from attacks on other convies. We see that Nick also has to lead knowing that his own wife maybe on one of the ships.
August 18, 2017
Fantastic Read
I have read many books dealing with the Pacific War, but very few books about the war in the Atlantic. This book gives you an idea as to what these men faced every day, until the entrance of the United States into the war. Britain as well as Russia were having a devil of a time fighting both the Germans and the weather.
I have read many books dealing with the Pacific War, but very few books about the war in the Atlantic. This book gives you an idea as to what these men faced every day, until the entrance of the United States into the war. Britain as well as Russia were having a devil of a time fighting both the Germans and the weather.
November 7, 2017
Fullerton does it again...Nick Everard overcomes all odds.
When The Admiralty needs a tough man for the job, Captain Nick Everard fits the bill. Non- stop action from cover to cover in an exciting tale of convoy escort duty against seemingly insurmountable odds...you will not be disappointed.
When The Admiralty needs a tough man for the job, Captain Nick Everard fits the bill. Non- stop action from cover to cover in an exciting tale of convoy escort duty against seemingly insurmountable odds...you will not be disappointed.
June 8, 2019
Enjoyable Destroyer Novel
Another well told tale in the series of destroyer novels by this author. One gets a real sense of what is must have been like to serve aboard these ships, escort convoys, and fight off lurking U boats.
Another well told tale in the series of destroyer novels by this author. One gets a real sense of what is must have been like to serve aboard these ships, escort convoys, and fight off lurking U boats.
August 11, 2017
Talk about action. I am almost tired out by the end of the book. Loved it
October 28, 2018
Navel battle
Great story from Fullerton one of the best so far looking forward to number 9 I'm wondering if next series will. Be as good
Great story from Fullerton one of the best so far looking forward to number 9 I'm wondering if next series will. Be as good
November 8, 2016
A good read.
January 19, 2019
Very good
A real taste of what it must have been like on convoy duty, all its frustrations and wondering whether you would be next.
A real taste of what it must have been like on convoy duty, all its frustrations and wondering whether you would be next.
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