Dodson, Kenneth Stranger to the Shore

A World War 2 yarn, set in 1942. The fictitious American freighter CAPE FALCON makes port in Chile to load a cargo of iron ore. Thirtyish “Chips” Kurt Mueller of San Francisco goes ashore for the day and soon becomes embroiled in the not-so-neutral goings on of local German-Chileans and Italian-Chileans. By novel’s end Chile is moving from its official neutrality towards a more active support of the Allied cause. The climax of the novel occurs when a German sea “raider” makes an unsuccessful attempt to sink the CAPE FALCON.