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Convoy of Fear (John Mason Kemp, Bk 5) (Large Print)
Convoy of Fear - John Mason Kemp, Bk 5 - Large Print Author:Philip McCutchan Lythway Large Print Series — Leaving Malta en route to Ceylon, Kemp's convoy makes its way to Alexandria and to the Suez Canal. Attack from air and sea is always close at hand, but now a far greater fear grips the convoy the spectre of cholera. Philip McCutchan's high-seas adventures charge onward, full steam ahead. — Publishers Weekly — ...The fif... more »th in the Commodore Kemp series (Convoy East) demonstrates his usual firm grasp of both shipboard life and a large cast of characters whose daily routines mix with occasional graphic moments of war horrors. Kemp, before WW II a skipper of ocean liners, has brought most of his convoy into Malta. Now flying his flag from the troopship Orlando, Kemp shepherds his flock through the Suez Canal toward Ceylon. The convoy soon contends with an outbreak of cholera, a German sea raider and a typhoon--plus a nasty popinjay of an Army general and the uxorious Kemp's attraction to a Wren officer.... A chief engineer with symptoms of cholera exhibits a stiff upper lip: "Well, the cholera would have to wait, that was all." ...
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