There are no courts of law on the high seas and no indetendent witnesses
According to the Geneva Convention, red crosses on a ship guarantee immunity from enemy attack. The *San Andreas' is a hospital ship but the members of her crew do not trust the lights that beam at night or the red crosses on her sides, to keep her safe. Above all, they do not trust the enemy U-boats.
Silently, undramatically, without ary forewarning, as in any abrupt and unexpected power cut in a city, the lights aboard the S an Andreas died in the hour before the dawn.
This however is no ordinary power cut. Somebody aboard the British hospital ship patoling the Norwegian seas is intent on sabotage.
The Captain and the Chief Officer of the San Andreas' are seriously injured in an enemy attack; Archie McKinnon, the Bosun, has to take charge. He is aware that there is a sinister presence on board. A member of the crew is betraying them and the saboteur has a homing device which is leading them relentlessly into enemy hands, And then the compass is destroyed...
In San Andreas Alistair MacLean is back at sea and back at war, recalling HMS Ulysses, his first novel; the novel which heralded the emergence of a remarkable talent and the arrival of a fiction-writing phenomenon - Alistair MacLean.
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