This is book two in the series of books featuring Nicholas Everard. In this book he is on the destroyer Tuareg operating in the Eastern Med. This is still early in the war, and the British flotilla is facing the might of the German Luftwaffe. Then the order comes to make one more trip into Crete.Mr. Fullerton has done a supurb job of developing this new naval series. This series has the spirit of the Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey series, but it is set instead in the world of World War II. The author served with distinction as a submarine officer in the British Royal Navy. It is clear that he knows whereof he speaks, and his writing skills are up there with the best.