Should be titled "relentless retelling." This book rehashes most of the pertinent details from the many previous books about Richard Bolitho. If you really enjoyed that series, stop now and don't bother with this one or those following it. It's like kissing your sister. There is still a some sea and boat action, but most of this and those following become much more soap operas and less stories of adventure on the high sea. Kent seems to have become fixated on the "forbidden woman" thing and it becomes the main plot of the rest of the series. It is also the main plot of most of his WWII books (written under his real name Douglas Reeman). I've read several of them. At first they were pretty good, then you realize that they all have the same haunted, troubled commander, just set in different types of vessels, and still somehow revolving around a "forbidden woman." It's sad, because I really enjoyed the Richard Bolitho series most of the way through.
