228pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 2025
ISBN: 9781776194643
First published in the UK in 2025
The third novel in the Jack Pembroke series, set in World War II.
Lieutenant Jack Pembroke is ordered to join a convoy and sail his ship, HMSAS Gannet, from South Africa to Egypt, where he will join the coastal escorts.
Justin Fox is the author of more than twenty books, including the first two Jack Pembroke novels, The Cape Raider and The Wolf Hunt. His non-fiction titles include Place, South African literary journeys and Secret Cape Town; as well as a collection of poems, Beat Routes, travel poems from near and there. The former editor of Getaway magazine, he lives in Cape Town.