MALTA INFERNO, a Jack Pembroke novel

223pp., paperback, Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9781776195404

The fourth novel in the Jack Pembroke series, set in World War II.

Lieutenant Jack Pembroke and his small escort ship HMSAS Southern Gannet join a vital and secret convoy from Egypt to relieve the besieged island of Malta.

Justin Fox is the author of more than twenty books, including the first three Jack Pembroke novels, The Cape Raider, The Wolf Hunt and Hell Run Tobruk. 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.