I remember buying this book when it was first released and being very impressed by it. There again, any Brian Callison book impressed me! I was in the Merchant Navy during the 1960s and many of the characters in the book could well have been based on some of the colleagues I sailed with then. I decided to revisit the book recently after many years, and still enjoyed it very much. A very good read, especially if you have a sea-going background.