To Kill the Leopard
Published on 30. August 2022
308 pages
978-1-5040-7717-0 (ISBN)
Description
"A high-impact techno-thriller [that] brings readers into the heart of WWII's Battle of the Atlantic...
To Kill the Leopard is a winner." -
Publishers Weekly
The U-boat under Horst Kammerer's command bears a leopard insignia, and Kammerer is indeed a feral hunter as he torpedoes Sully Jordan's oil tanker. The merchant marine escapes with his life-only to encounter Kammerer again a month after Pearl Harbor. After Jordan loses yet another ship to the German captain, he boards a Q-ship-a decoy packed with weapons-with the intention of becoming predator instead of prey...
"The novel sustains interest from first page to last with an exciting story line that climaxes in an enthralling final duel." - Publishers Weekly
"Realistic submarine suspense... Leaps from scenes aboard a Nazi U-boat to scenes on freighters sailed by American merchant mariner Sully Jordan to scenes in Lorient, France, where the Resistance works against the Occupation." - Kirkus Reviews
The U-boat under Horst Kammerer's command bears a leopard insignia, and Kammerer is indeed a feral hunter as he torpedoes Sully Jordan's oil tanker. The merchant marine escapes with his life-only to encounter Kammerer again a month after Pearl Harbor. After Jordan loses yet another ship to the German captain, he boards a Q-ship-a decoy packed with weapons-with the intention of becoming predator instead of prey...
"The novel sustains interest from first page to last with an exciting story line that climaxes in an enthralling final duel." - Publishers Weekly
"Realistic submarine suspense... Leaps from scenes aboard a Nazi U-boat to scenes on freighters sailed by American merchant mariner Sully Jordan to scenes in Lorient, France, where the Resistance works against the Occupation." - Kirkus Reviews
More details
Person
Theodore Taylor was an American author of more than fifty fiction and nonfiction books for young adult and adult readers. During World War II, he first served as a cadet-AB seaman on a gasoline tanker, then became a naval officer in the Pacific Theater. Taylor published his first book,
The Magnificent Mitscher, in 1955. His novel
The Cay won eleven literary awards, including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was adapted into a film in 1974. In 2006, Taylor passed away in his beloved "house in the woods" in Laguna Beach, California. He was surrounded by his family, his books, and years of wonderful memories.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Book One
- Lorient, France-January 1941
- January 20, 1941
- Book Two
- February 28, 1941
- Late March 1941
- Late June 1941
- Book Three
- December 1941
- Book Four
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
