The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau. For Captain Mark Gunnar - driven by the memory of his torture at the hands of Viet Cong guerrillas - the new command is a chance to even the score against a ruthless, unrelenting enemy. But Payenhau is very different from his expectations, and as the weather worsens a crisis develops that Gunnar must face alone.
- ISBN10 0090792408
- ISBN13 9780090792405
- Publish Date 24 September 1973
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Hutchinson
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English