Hunters in the Stream: A Riley Fitzhugh Novel
Ebook
In Hunters in the
Stream, Riley Fitzhugh goes through officer training
and is assigned to PC 475, a new anti-U-boat vessel stationed in
Key West. The 475 is nicknamed Nameless by her crew because patrol craft vessels
were only given numbers.
Nameless cruises the
Gulf of Mexico in search of U-boats, goes to the rescue of a
sinking oil tanker, stops in Havana for meetings with the Cuban
Navy, and learns of a possible secret German U-boat fueling station
in the wilds of eastern Cuba. Nameless locates the base and destroys it with
the ship’s gunfire and a coordinated small-arms attack led by
Fitzhugh and his shore party. Later, another U-boat is reported
damaged and sinking. The German survivors capture a Bahamian turtle
boat, murder the crew, and head for Cuba, thinking that the fuel
dump is still in operation. Fitzhugh and the Nameless pursue through the tangle of mangroves
and Cuban keys, find the Germans, and finish them off in a
shootout. Along the way, Fitzhugh meets Ernest Hemingway and toward
the end tells him about the Nameless’s adventures. Hemingway thinks about
adapting the story for his own. Fitzhugh and Hemingway’s wife,
writer Martha Gellhorn, also meet and feel some mutual
stirrings—and give in to them.
Mr. Mort's lucid, often beautifully written books are a pleasure to read.
Mort makes a fascinating read of every subject he takes up.
Mr. Mort, quite a stylist himself, writes with clarity, a gentle touch and deft choice of words, similes and metaphors.
- Title: Hunters in the Stream: A Riley Fitzhugh Novel
- Author: Terry Mort
- Publisher: McBooks Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493058372, 9781493058365, 1493058371, 1493058363
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493058372
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:18:49Z