Hardy, William M. Wolfpack.

Though there are many “submarine wolfpack versus convoy” World War 2 tales in this bibliography, Hardy’s novel is decidedly a one-of-a-kinder. Instead of the usual stealthy Nazi U-boats against Allied North Atlantic convoys, author Hardy’s very interesting work looks at an American submarine wolfpack in the Pacific theater of war. Set in late June 1944, the novel opens at the U.S. Navy’s submarine base in Darwin, Australia and then follows an American wolfpack as it heads north looking for a Japanese convoy to destroy. Battle is engaged off the Japanese-controlled island of Formosa. The novel has an authentic feel to it; no surprise since author William Hardy was a naval officer aboard the American sub U.S.S. BILLFISH, serving on two war patrols in the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War.