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James Edmond Macdonnell is one of the most

prolific writers in Australia today, His books

have been translated into many languages,

selling in the millions throughout the world. And

he is still writing...

He served in the Navy before, during and after

the War, climbing up through the hawsepipe

from ordinary seaman to officer in the gunnery

branch. This experience of both lowerdeck and

wardroom provided invaluable insight into his

fictional characters.

He lives with his wife, two daughters and a son

in the shorebound Sydney suburb of St. Ives,

but his main interest, apart from sports cars, lies

in swapping stories, of varying degrees of

truthfulness, with old shipmates

ISBN 0 7255 1756 1

The Return Of

Captain Sainsbury

Bruce Thornton Sainsbury, veteran of many of the early stories

written by J.E. Macdonnell, here returns in league with Peter

Bentley on a mission to run interference for an American task

force.

To cover a planned invasion, these two men lead the men and

their ships into the dangerous seas between the enemy and the

American armada.

Their job: To report the approach of enemy ships: to delay and

confuse: to engage if necessary: to destroy if possible: to

succeed at any cost.

But heroic missions can sometimes fail,

just as heroic men sometimes die.

THE COLLECTOR’S SERIES MAKES A COMPLETE NUM-

BERED PAPERBACK LIBRARY SET OF J.E. MACDONNELL’S

CLASSIC BEST SELLING NAVAL ADVENTURE NOVELS

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Characters: ....191472

Words: ......39959

Sentences: ........3464

Paragraphs: ........1534

Index

Chapter One.............................................................6

Chapter Two...........................................................20

Chapter Three........................................................29

Chapter Four .........................................................39

Chapter Five .........................................................55

Chapter Six ............................................................61

Chapter Seven ......................................................96

Chapter Eight....................................................... 115

Excute!

J.E. Macdonnell

HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS

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Distributed by Horwitz Grahame Books Pty Ltd,

506 Millet Street, Cammeray, 2062and

Gordon & Gotch Limited.

114 William Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

Classic Edition 1978

Collectors Edition 1984

National Library of Australia Card No.

and ISBN 0 7255 1758 1

Printed in Australia by

The Dominion Press-Hedges & Bell

Victoria

*Recommended price only

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CHAPTER ONE

MOON over Mindanao. A fat yellow moon sailing slowly down

to its rest in the west. A lovely moon, like you see in the travel posters,

luring you up into the tropics. Still diffusing plenty of light, making

of the sea a glinting silvery field. Making the destroyer’s grey

upperworks frosted silver. Plain as hell.

“Blast that bloody moon,” muttered Lieutenant-Commander

Benson.

In its light he could clearly see the mountainous edge of

Mindanao’s eastern seaboard, and unpleasantly in his mind was the

awareness that while he could see, he could be seen.

“Repeat, sir?” said the navigating officer quickly.

Benson moved one hand slightly in denial. Pilot relaxed —insofar

as a navigating officer could with his ship hunting a submarine. Pilot

kept his eyes occasionally on the compass and his ears constantly on

the asdic speaker.

Benson moved to the chart table and laid his forearms across its

top. There are some captains who are detested by their men. This

type of officer is either naturally bitchy, or else unsure of himself.

Sailors can with great accuracy detect both faults. Benson was one

of the most universally liked captains in the Service.

He was rather a chubby fellow—liking food and eschewing all

forms of exercise other than that unavoidably inflicted upon him by

a destroyer’s lively movements in a seaway. As for his face, it was

most pleasant and genial. You liked him at once, and first impressions

were proven correct.

He was a casual sort of fellow; not in dress, like a somewhat

careless captain presently based and restfully asleep far away in

Darwin, but in his attitude to worry and danger. Perhaps unflappable

would describe him more correctly. He also happened to know his

job. But then his ship Witch, a modern Fleet destroyer of almost

2000 tons, was a unit of Captain Peter Bentley’s flotilla, and that

should be enough to indicate Benson’s professional competence.

He was young by normal standards, twenty-eight, but abnormally

aged and matured by responsibility, experience and the harsh game

in which he had been engaged for the past four years. Right now, at

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three in the morning, he was feeling tired. Stiff, too, from hours of

sitting on the damned stool in the corner, whose top was made of

bare hard wood. He left the chart table and wandered over to the

binnacle.

Sure of himself, Benson yawned in company, and then he said:

“What d’you think, old boy?”

Professionally, Pilot was stamped from that same mould which

had produced so many of his kind, but one aspect of his character

had not, and never would, change. He was aged twenty-five, and he

had the lugubriousness of an arthritic man of seventy.

“Dunno, sir.”

Benson’s mouth twisted. The day you got Pilot’s real feelings

with your first question would be an occasion for wonder, or else he

was direly ill. With nothing better to do, Benson persisted.

“Oh, come on. Surely to God you’ve been thinking of other things

than your damned courses and soundings and reefs?”

“Well, as a matter of fact...”

Benson waited. The signal yeoman, with nothing at all to do,

waited. Pilot looked at the compass, then raised his gaunt face and

looked into the heavens.

“The suspense is killing me,” said Benson.

“Sorry, sir, I was just thinking ...”

“What, for the love of Mike?”

“That we’re wasting our time.”

Benson had come to this conclusion half an hour ago. He said:

“What makes you think that?”

“Three things.”

After a moment’s silence Benson said, “Let’s have ‘em, then, in

order of preference.”

“Yes, sir. First, we were the only ship in the flotilla to gain a

contact. Second, it was a weak, fuzzy contact.

Third,” Pilot said, shaking his head despondently, “I don’t think

it was a submarine at all.”

All without a pause ... Benson looked at him admiringly before

saying:

“By George, Pilot, I believe you’re right.”

“Thank you, sir,”, said Pilot mournfully.

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