When a liner is torpedoed, all on board must abandon ship. Five men escape into a lifeboat, one of them an old and frail priest. Curtain, the only sailor aboard, assumes responsibility for the terrified men and cares for the priest, while trying to navigate the tiny craft through the vast ocean.
- ISBN10 0718304640
- ISBN13 9780718304645
- Publish Date November 1976
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English