Callison, Brian The Judas Ship

Set in 1941 just before America’s entry into World War 2. The British freighter MAYA STAR, traveling out of convoy, is attacked by a German sea raider (the fictitious SEEPANTHER) two hundred miles off the coast of Brazil and, though grievously damaged, survives — and indeed escapes her pursuer. With but a handful of her original crew still alive the MAYA Star’s captain (and Callison’s narrator) manages to get his ship to Brazil only to find — to his great horror — that the Nazi raider’s captain has chosen the same esturial jungle locale to make repairs to his vessel. Callison provides a rousing, African Queen-like finale to this fast paced novel.