The Torch Bearers

It is the autumn of 1942; Captain Sir Nicholas Everard has a convoy to escort, a big, slow convoy with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. This was to be a sacrificial convoy. For while the U-boat pack devours Nick's convoy, the 'Torch' invasion forces are to slip through the Gibraltar Straits. But then the convoy is joined by a limping passenger ship that might have Kate on board - his own newly-wedded wife in a doomed convoy, U-boat bait...