Submarine U93

A British admiral once survived a hail of grape-shot because a sixpence hung over his heart. In 1914, that battered coin is all his grandson, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Burke, inherits.

Alone in the restless rush of New York, Jimmy is determined to earn an honest living and live up to his father’s last counsel: remember his duty, his mother’s example, and the name of Swiftsure Burke. He takes a clerk’s job with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—the very brokers who helped ruin his father—and finds a hard master, a meagre wage, and one loyal friend in Peggy Wade. As the old coin passes from a tale of naval courage into the hands of a boy with no fortune but his own resolve, Jimmy must decide how much a name—and a promise—can be worth. Can his luck hold when he has walked straight into his father’s destroyers?

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