1944. Germany faces final defeat. Across 5000 miles of wild Atlantic dominated by Allied navies, 22 men and 5 nuns aboard "The Deutschland" ship battling home to Kiel… 

          A U-boat ace captured in a desperate raid on Falmouth… an American girl doctor caught in the nightmare of the Flying Bombs… a gunboat commander who’s fought from the Solomons to the Channel… an admiral wanting to get back into action…
Allies and enemies, men and women, the hunters and the hunted – drawn inexorably into the eye of the storm…