Crete, May 1941. Nick Everard commands the destroyer Tuareg, faced with what look like insurmountable problems - he must "lift" a cut-off body of troops and the staff of an Australian field hospital from under the Germans' noses on the "wrong" side of the island where first light will find them.
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Alexander Fullerton was a cadet at Dartmouth at the age of thirteen and went to sea serving first in the battleship Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean. He wrote his first novel SURFACE! in the early 1950s and it sold over 500,000 copies. Then he worked on the 9-volume Nicholas Everard series that made his reputation. He died in February 2008.
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