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Novelist-Playwright De Hartog (The Distant Shore, The Fourposter) makes Skipper Harinxma the most intriguing ship's officer since Horatio Hornblower. This is surprising in some ways, for the hero's trials occur on the well-plowed Murmansk run during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights...