Cameron's Troop Lift

The intrepid British naval officer Donald Cameron returns in Cameron's Troop Lift, perhaps the most exciting Cameron World War 11 adventure to date. A typhoon - a ferocious menace in the Bay of Bengal - inflicts damage and casualties on the destroyer Caithness, testing Lieutenant-Commander Cameron's seamanship to the full. Suddenly a lifeboat appears ahead and, by the vigour of the turbulent seas, a seaman is flung aboard the British ship to lie trapped by a cable. The costly rescue of this Japanese survivor yields documents and other information adding to what Cameron already knows: nearby there is probably a convoy carrying British prisoners-of-war from Singapore to Rangoon for use as slave labour in the Burmese jungle. Cameron decides to pursue the convoy, hoping to detach the transports from their escort. but when the Caithness does eventually sight an enemy, the ships close - and two captains face one another, each knowing the other's guns are trained upon his ship. And Cameron realizes his actions will not only risk the lives of his crew but of many hundreds of British POWs as well.