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Late autumn 1941. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force is terror-bombing Chinese cities, sweeping refugees by the untold thousands before their onslaught. The Imperial Japanese Army has invaded French Indochina, and it is suspected they may soon attack Thailand or Burma, perhaps even Singapore itself.

Captain Roy Mallinson, elderly Royal Navy veteran of the Great War, has been pulled from retirement to aid Britain in this new war. His old merchant navy ship, the SS Dominion Empress - its onl...