”A SPANKING, salty tale written with a sure knowledge of the sea and the Grand Banks and as currently topical as the day's newspaper," said the New York Sun when this "hard driving tale of trawlers and prowling U-boats" was published early in 1943, and Harry Hansen in the New York World-Telegram called it a "thriller of the frost water." The book was among the out-standing fiction successes of the spring of 1943, and was the Literary Guild selection for the month in which it was published. United Artists will produce it as a movie.

     The Gaunt Woman is the story of the adventures of a Gloucester skipper on the trail of a wolf-pack of Nazi U-boats and their mother ship the Gaunt Woman. It is Edmund Gilligan's fourth novel. Mr. Gilligan writes from first-hand knowledge of the sea, Gloucester fishing schooners and U-boats. He was in the Navy in the First World War on a sub-chaser working with Canadian mine sweepers and destroyers in Newfoundland waters, and during the last year Mr. Gilligan has made several trips on Gloucester fishing boats to the Grand Banks, has seen U-boats and the result of their depredations on the fishing fleet. Part of The Gaunt Woman was written on one of these voyages.

     This special edition of THE GAUNT WOMAN by Edmund Gilligan has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

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