Publisher's Synopsis
""...a tense, well-written story." DAILY TELEGRAPH "He brings to the narrative of the convoy's grim passage a vivid authenticity, an unchallengable authority." SUNDAY TIMES It was Kapitanleutnant Johan Kleber, the commander of a German U-Boat, who made the first sighting report of the Allied convoy JW137, Murmansk bound, and so 'Kleber's Convoy' it became. The U-Boat's signals were intercepted by the Admiralty in London and passed back to the commanders of the British escort vessels; notably to Lieutenant-Commander Redman of the destroyer VENGEFUL. The U-Boat commander's name was for him a painful shock: could this be the same man who had saved his life on a Swiss ski-slope years before? Was the relationship between these two friends and enemies to provide a haunting counterpart to the savage naval battle?
