Bound out of Oran, crammed with Afrika Korps PoW`s, destined for the USA, the American transport Susquehanna falls pray to the deadly torpedoes of U-157. The U-boat commander`s fatel error has put 4,000 German lives at stake. He offers a truce to any shipping that can come to their rescue. But this is total war, and it could be a ruthless deathtrap… with light cruiser Daemon heading into a killing ground…

          For Signalman ‘Lobby’ Ludd, veteran of The Tinfish Run, it`s just one more wartime matter of life and death – in the course of his own personal pursuit of Nurse ‘McCuddly’ McCudden…