Summary
A war-time adventure centers on Captain Sir Owen Kettle, who is frustrated that his wooden leg keeps him from enlisting and soon becomes involved with Martin Carnforth, an MP determined to act against a German submarine threat. The story follows their plan to take matters into their own hands, with Kettle and his wife joining a covert trip under assumed names to the United States and New Orleans to deal with a suspicious tanker linked to German interests. The book belongs to the Captain Kettle short-story sequence and is set against World War I.
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