As captain of the submarine Ursa, Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage than any of his contemporaries. Promotion to Lieutenant-Commander, at the age of twenty-eight, is on the cards. All he has to do is adhere to two stay alive, and keep his nose clean... Submariner is a gripping Second World War naval thriller that will appeal to fans of Douglas Reeman and Jack Higgins.