This is the story of the smuggling of merchant ships along the neutral Turkish coastline in early World War 2 past the Axis occupied Greek islands by Royal Naval officers in command. And though this is the man line of the story, the author goes of track a lot by talking of his social life and his run-ins with axis and allied agents all across Turkey. The book is drawn out by all these little misadventures around the main event, that makes this book become a bit of a drag to read in the end.