The Torch Bearers

Nicholas Everard Saga #8

by Alexander Fullerton

In this fifth book in the six-book series, Sub-lieutenant Paul Everard and his submarine Ultra are part of a small flotilla bringing a big, slow convoy to Britain bait for German U-boats. And they take the bait! While the Nazis attack the convoy, British Torch invasion forces begin to slip into North Africa, striking a blow for the Allies. The Torch Bearers brims with Fullerton's usual historical and technical accuracy, and is another action-packed adventure for Everard during the height of WWII naval warfare.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Military History, European History, World War II, Fiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Alexander 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

Reviews

[Colin Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Martin Jest · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.

[Mick Bird · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[7$MartyQ · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[David Hamel · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Robert M. Roth MD · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[clinton Littlefield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Talk about action. I am almost tired out by the end of the book. Loved it

[Jeff Pinnock · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good read.

[ricky · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.