Two Hours to Darkness

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WHY IS Commander Shadde so concerned about discipline on board Her Majesty's Polaris submarine Retaliate, cruising in Scandinavian waters within easy missile range of Leningrad? Could the ship's company contain a saboteur?

The time is 1964. Britain has bought the latest nuclear submarines from the United States, put them under the command of the Navy's most experienced officers, and sent them off on routine summer duty. But something is wrong on Retaliate. There are tensions among the crew. The captain suspects the loyalty of his staff. The threatened breakup of his marriage obsesses him.

From its first uneasy moments, Antony Trew's story rises with terrifying crescendo to a moment of decision when the fate of men everywhere is at stake.

COMMANDER SHADDE, Captain

LIEUT. COMMANDER CAVAN, First Lieutenant

LIEUT. SYMINGTON, Navigating Officer

SURGEON LIEUT. O'SHEA, Doctor

LIEUT. COMMANDER (E) RHYS EVANS, Chief Engineer

LIEUT. COMMANDER GALLAGHER, U. S. N. Nuclear Weapons Control Officer

CHIEF P.O. TELEGRAPHIST GRACIE

MR. BUDDINGTON