HMS Hecate 2.The Enemy Below

✍ Scribed by D. A. Rayner

• Book ID: 100212140
• Publisher: Thunderchild Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

DUEL AT SEA

From the moment the radar indicated a German sub, the captain of the
destroyer Hecate knew he would
achieve his life’s ambition — a duel to the death in deserted waters between
his ship and an enemy submarine.

Below the choppy sea sped the U-121 commanded by Kapitan von Stolberg, an efficient, brutal sailor who also
welcomed a fight to the finish — but for a different reason. His submarine was
entrusted with a mission that could prove catastrophic to the Allied war
effort. Nothing — least of all a British destroyer — must stand in his way.

Plotting his strategy like a deadly game of chess, the destroyer captain
doggedly tailed the elusive sub. Depth charge answered torpedo, cannon matched
gun and finally man faced man in a climactic battle for supremacy at sea.

THE ENEMY BELOW was the basis for the Academy Award winning 1957 movie starring Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens.

About the author: Denys Arthur Rayner was a Royal Navy officer who fought throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. After intensive war service at sea, Rayner became a writer, a farmer, and a successful designer and builder of small sailing craft.