| Author: | Brian Callison | ISBN: | 1230000125213 |
| Publisher: | Steamship eBooks | Publication: | April 13, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brian Callison |
| ISBN: | 1230000125213 |
| Publisher: | Steamship eBooks |
| Publication: | April 13, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
TRAPP'S WAR heralds the first of five rollicking, rumbustious and utterly deplorable adventures that comprise Brian Callison's best-selling saga of the unapologetically amoral Captain Edward Trapp, his appalling sidekick Gorbals Wullie, his equally degenerate succession of crews and ever-more decrepit tramp steamers which persist in sinking beneath him, as chronicled by the bloody-minded reprobate's increasingly bemused Chief Officer, Miller.
This, Trapp's maiden voyage into self-employed skullduggery, begins in 1942. In the war-torn Mediterranean. The island of Malta is being starved by the near-impenetrable Axis blockade. Only the SS Charon, a rusting, wheezing eight-knot coal burner deep-laden with black market contraband routinely slips with ease between the opposing forces in those lethal waters. Until, on one high-explosive night, the Royal Navy finally catches up with her. And an admiral has An Idea …
Whereupon a black-affronted, vociferously protesting - to say nothing of a now most unlikely Lieutenant-Commander Edward Trapp, RN - is forced back to sea in his by-then-somewhat deviously modified coffin ship to wage an unorthodox, violent and often harrowing war for the Allies … but will he? Because Trapp, privateer and born survivor, has always tended to view the inconvenience of global conflict with an eye rather more attuned to profit-driven opportunism than patriotic duty. In fact, admiral or no bloody admiral, the only war Trapp plans to fight is … Trapp's War!
"This must be Brian Callison's best book. It is even better than A Flock Of Ships and I didn't think he could achieve this. I didn't think anyone could ... there can be no better adventure writer today." ALISTAIR MACLEAN.
"… hilariously funny, moving, and extremely exciting." DICK FRANCIS.
TRAPP'S WAR heralds the first of five rollicking, rumbustious and utterly deplorable adventures that comprise Brian Callison's best-selling saga of the unapologetically amoral Captain Edward Trapp, his appalling sidekick Gorbals Wullie, his equally degenerate succession of crews and ever-more decrepit tramp steamers which persist in sinking beneath him, as chronicled by the bloody-minded reprobate's increasingly bemused Chief Officer, Miller.
This, Trapp's maiden voyage into self-employed skullduggery, begins in 1942. In the war-torn Mediterranean. The island of Malta is being starved by the near-impenetrable Axis blockade. Only the SS Charon, a rusting, wheezing eight-knot coal burner deep-laden with black market contraband routinely slips with ease between the opposing forces in those lethal waters. Until, on one high-explosive night, the Royal Navy finally catches up with her. And an admiral has An Idea …
Whereupon a black-affronted, vociferously protesting - to say nothing of a now most unlikely Lieutenant-Commander Edward Trapp, RN - is forced back to sea in his by-then-somewhat deviously modified coffin ship to wage an unorthodox, violent and often harrowing war for the Allies … but will he? Because Trapp, privateer and born survivor, has always tended to view the inconvenience of global conflict with an eye rather more attuned to profit-driven opportunism than patriotic duty. In fact, admiral or no bloody admiral, the only war Trapp plans to fight is … Trapp's War!
"This must be Brian Callison's best book. It is even better than A Flock Of Ships and I didn't think he could achieve this. I didn't think anyone could ... there can be no better adventure writer today." ALISTAIR MACLEAN.
"… hilariously funny, moving, and extremely exciting." DICK FRANCIS.
