Phantom Fleet

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies,a page-turning thriller (James M. Scott) about one of the greatest heists in history: the U.S. Navys clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II. Shortly before noon on June 4, 1944, the sonar operator on a destroyer prowling off the coast of West Africa heard a sharp, metallic ping. The sound could mean only one thing: The German submarine that their hunter-killer group had been tracking, U-505, was lurking somewhere below. The ensuing struggle between exhausted hunter and venomous prey would make history when American sailors boarded an enemy warship at sea for the first time since the War of 1812. That days victory was the culmination of an unrelenting campaign against the Nazi submarine threat by the U.S. Navys Tenth Fleeta mysterious unit that could predict the locations...