In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians. In , bestselling author Kevin Major reimagines the events of that fateful night from the perspectives of both those aboard the doomed vessel and the German U-boat commander who gave the order. With his characteristically sharp, evocative prose style, Major delivers an epic work of historical fiction, detailing a life-and-death conflict in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. is a powerful and empathetic testament to the acts of destruction and the acts of heroism carried out in the name of home.