“‘It’s worth a lifetime in the Navy,’ the Commodore said, ‘to see a ship come through like that.’ — Here is the story of the men who ‘take them across,’ the destroyer crews who brave more than the sea and battle and death — who live through the tenseness of waiting for that one moment when the enemy sub or plane may strike — for the brief, final round which means either they or the enemy sink to destruction — This is the first novel by an American about the war written by an American who has actually fought in it — swift, terse, tense, with an undercurrent of excitement you’ll never forget.” — p. 31.