Morrow, NY, 1978, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6 x 8 1/2, 256 pages, great cover at by Chris Mayger. FINE/FINE CONDITION. AUTOGRAPHED EDITION - signed by the author on a custom book plate - signature only .

------------ In November, 1941, Commander Robert Ainslie, a highly skilled and experienced submariner, arrives in Singapore to attempt the strangest mission of his career. Ainslie's task, along with his specially trained company, is to find and seize the giant French submarine cruiser Soufriere, which is known to be in Far Eastern waters. Britain stands alone, and with her forces stretched to the limit the Soufriere presents a very real menace to the long trade routes and sparsely protected convoys. Ainslie is totally unprepared for the complacent and quite offhand treatment he receives in Singapore, a place untouched by war, but the savage attack by the Japanese on Malaya and the United States base at Pearl Harbor changes all that, and Ainslie's new command becomes essential in the last moments of the campaign.

As he leads his assorted company from one crisis to another, the Soufriere, the largest submarine in the world, takes on a new role of retribution and becomes in her own way a symbol of hope. With an unbroken list of eighteen highly successful novels to his credit, Douglas Reeman is now securely established as an outstanding writer of modern sea stories. With its tremendous scenes of naval action, its convincingly drawn characters, and its powerful theme,Strike from the Sea is one of his most vivid and memorable novels.