Maddon's Rock

The chilling story of desperate men on a doomed ship during World War II from “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” ( Financial Times ). For three weeks, Cpl. James Landon Vardy has waited in Murmansk, a frozen northern port of the Soviet Union, hoping a ship will come to take him home. He’s British, in Russia to help with the war effort, and as he shivers in the icy port, he dreams of spring in England. Finally, a miracle—a ship. But when Vardy boards the Trikkala , he has no idea he’s s