Cameron in Command

After his unexpected success in North Africa, Donald Cameron receives accelerated promotion to lieutenant-commander RNVR. His first command is HM corvette Briar, with orders to proceed south from Sierra Leone to the Falkland Islands with a sapper demolition party embarked to inhibit a Japanese attack on Port Stanley, a base from which to attack Allied convoys moving to and from the Cape of Good Hope. Despite skirmishes with a U-boat on the passage of the South Atlantic, Cameron reaches the Falklands with his first command in good shape. But trouble lies ahead in the plan to penetrate the maze of inlets behind Cape Horn where the Japanese are believed to be lurking, and to land the sappers who will block the Japanese in with explosives as the enemy warships negotiate the narrowest channel.