It is some time in the middle of World War II. The American Buckleyclass destroyer escort USS Haynes is on patrol in the South Atlantic. Lieutenant Commander Murrell, a former captain in the Merchant Marine and now an activeduty officer in the Naval Reserve, has recently taken command of the ship; he joined the Navy after his freighter was sunk by a German Uboat, and is still recovering from injuries incurred in the sinking of his previous Navy warship and 21 days marooned adrift afterwards.

Before the Uboat is first spotted, one sailor questions the new captain's fitness and ability. Once a skilled game of catandmouse tracking the Uboat gives way to a series of even more finely honed and intuitive attacks, the crew falls in strongly behind their new skipper.

He's matching deadly wits with Uboat Kapitän zur See von Stolberg, a wily former World War I Unterseaboot skipper deep into a conflict he resents for a Nazi regime he detests. As the battle that emerges tests both commanders and their crews, each man grows to respect his opponent as he discovers his rival can read his mind.
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