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The Passenger by F.R. Tallis
3.5★'s
1941. A German submarine, U-471, patrols the stormy inhospitable waters of the North Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is bound by duty and honor to fight in. U-471 receives a triple-encoded message with instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest—and a British submarine commander, Sutherland, and a Norwegian academic, Professor Bjornar Grimstad, are taken on board. Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking, brutal events occur. In the aftermath, disturbing things start happening on the boat. It seems that a lethal, supernatural force is stalking the crew, wrestling with Lorenz for control. A thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn't matter how loud you scream. It's a good story and the events that unfold will leave the reader guessing about the two "passengers". I found this to not be actually about a supernatural happening but a much more subtle and intriguing story that focuses more on the boat’s crew and the psychological stresses of war...especially a war that you are confined in a "tin can" far below the ocean surface. I would have enjoyed the book more if there had been more focus on the supernatural element. Not a bad book by any means and well worth the time to read it...just don't expect any ghost of ghoulies to appear. This is also on DVD under the title
U-471
