The Good Shepherd (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773239910)

The Good Shepherd is a 1955 nautical and war novel by C. S. Forester. First published in the U.S., it illustrates the difficulties of the Battle of the Atlantic: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.

"A high and glittering excitement...[Forester] has no master and few peers." -The New York Times

"Nothing more exciting has been launched since Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea." -The Guardian

"C. S. Forester is the best living writer about the sea." -Time

"Action, tension, tingling suspense...The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II." -Life Magazine