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Greyhound

Discover the gripping naval thriller behind the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks

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Greyhound

By: C.S. Forester
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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Brought to you by Penguin.

'Unbelievably good' James Holland, bestselling author of Normandy '44

The Tom Hanks film originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as C.S. Forester's wartime classic

It's 1942. America has just joined the war.

Greyhound, an international convoy of thirty-seven allied ships, is in operation.

Captain Krause must lead his first command of a US destroyer as the convoy ploughs through the icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas.

For forty-eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the wolf packs of German U-boats. His mission looks doomed to fail. But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, hope may just be on the horizon. . .

This is a riveting classic of naval warfare from the author of the legendary Hornblower series.

'High and glittering excitement' New York Times

© C.S. Forester 1955 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Sea Adventures War & Military Submarine U-Boat Military War

Critic Reviews

Action, tension, tingling suspense . . . The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II
The best book of its kind since The Cruel Sea
High and glittering excitement
Nothing more exciting has been launched since Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea (Guardian)
All stars
Most relevant
Themes of:
Duty and Honor
Fatigue
Rank and Responsibility

Enjoyable listen with few dead spots in the novel. Quite fast paced which was nice.

Enjoyable Naval Novel

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Forrester's best. I was so wanting more. What a masterpiece and the performance was brilliant.

Action packed and fast moving

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Not for everyone, you would need to have an interest in warfare, some of the technical jargon would lose many, what I love about this story is that it gives a real inside view of what men must do in the time of war.

Excellent

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A really good story from the trials of the Atlantic in WWII. So many good men doing their deed.

An Epic

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i enjoyed this immensely. an enthralling war story with a very interesting protagonist.
some other readers had criticisms about it being too complex to follow all the battle maneuvers and navigation - which is true, you'd need a map and a degree in nautical navigation to follow it - but you dont need to follow it, you just need to get a feel for the complexity and confusion of naval battles

A truly excellent war story

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