In the early days of World War II, Great Britain is fighting for its life. With the Nazi Luftwaffe and U-boat wolfpacks bearing down, they've never needed America more. In secret, Winston Churchill travels by sea to Newfoundland to meet with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the Nazis learn of the meeting, they deploy their greatest weapon - the Sea Lion, a juggernaut even more dangerous than the sunken Bismark. Its sole mission - track and destroy Churchill's convoy. But in the prime minister's protective naval cordon is the HMS Firedancer, commanded by Captain George Hardy. A veteran of too many hard-fought battles, Hardy struggles to balance duty and honour against the destruction he has wrought in the service of his country. But his most daunting task is still to come. Now, in the merciless North Atlantic, the pride of the Nazi fleet will confront the defiant might of the Allies - with the fate of the war lying in the hands of the victor...
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Another great story from Steven Wilson!,
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This review is from: Between the Hunters and the Hunted (Paperback)
After reading Steven Wilson's "Voyage of the Gray Wolves," I purchased "Between the Hunters and the Hunted." As with "Voyage," I found "Hunters and Hunted" to be well-researched and very entertaining; however, Mr. Wilson's writing skills have improved significantly with this novel making it a very readable book. I commend this novel to anyone with and interest in WWII. I am looking forward with considerable anticipation to the incarnation of the British destroyer Firedancer and her captain and crew!
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This review is from: Between the Hunters and the Hunted (Paperback)
I had a chance to read this book as it came out and it held my interest from the beginning. It has a lot of characters from the author's first book, Voyage of the Gray Wolves, but the setting is different. I highly recommend it.
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But I found that although the story was engaging the battle scenes lacked credibility and the editing was terrible. Chapter 29 opens with the British light cruiser 30 kilometers distant from the German battleship, "too close for Anton (A turret) to get a good shot". Clearly at 20 miles the 16 inch guns of the battleship would have plenty of time and reach to take out the cruiser long before being in range herself - how it can be claimed that at that distance the main batteries cannot be brought to bear? The premise is that the most powerful ship in the world is unable to sink a light cruiser approaching from that distance before she is close enough to (spoiler averted). Similary, there are a number of places where the editing or proofing is non-existant. Later in that same chapter the German Captain is informed that there is a "British destroyer just clearing our bows. At ten thousand kilometers." There are several places where meters and kilometers are confused - I have to assume that the destroyer isn't really 6,000+ miles away, but that is what the book says! Again, the story is engaging, but you had better be willing to suspend your disbelief and overlook some major errors to see it as being believable.
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