描述
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 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.
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 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.