"When Captain Carlsen was finally rescued from the Flying Enterprise after days alone aboard his doomed ship, many people must have thought: What a tale Conrad would have made of this. Elleston Trevor has done it. GALE FORCE transforms an epic of our own time into a novel of the sea with a dramatic grip and haunting descriptive power which irresistibly reminds the reader of TYPHOON...This book will move and enthrall all who feel the fascination of the cruel and mighty sea." --Joseph Taggart, writing in the Star