Set during the Second World War, this cliff-hanger begins in the condemned cell. Born in Liverpool in the 1920s David Stevenson joins the Royal Navy as a medic. He returns home unexpectedly and finds his wife with another man. Wild with rage he attacks the man and leaves him unconscious. Before the police apprehend him he sails onboard his destroyer HMS Decoy for the Mediterranean. Earlier, on HMS Hollyhock, a Flower class frigate, David had faced the perils of U-boat warfare in the Atlantic and is recommended for the Distinguished Service Medal. Now he is a fugitive and is exposed to the terrible carnage during the evacuation of Crete. But what will happen when the law finally catches up with him? This meticulously researched story, raunchy in part and told with typical humour, ends with a subtle twist that will keep the reader guessing until the last page.