This is a story about survival on an oil tanker which had been torpedoed in 1942. All the navigating officers had been killed and an engineer, the most senior officer left in a fit condition, had to get the ship carrying twelve thousand tons of aviation fuel to Liverpool. What was left of the crew, were living on a time bomb. It was one which could explode at any time due to the nature of their cargo. They did not know friend from foe. German agents...