Overview
Less than a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was under a relentless German U-boat attacks on merchant ships just off the East Coast of the United States. The American public knew little of these attacks as the news was heavily censored on the radio and newspapers by censors working on behalf of the military government.
The U-boats most productive attack was the "Wolf Pack' method where dozens of U-boats would attack merchant vessels once they were assembled in convoys further out at sea.
The information about these convoy's departures and their routes were highly prized by German espionage agents.
On November 27 1942 Convoy H.X. 217 left New York on the southern route to Europe. On the following night, November 28th, the deadliest night club fire in history occurred killing 492 people in Boston. The news was so horrendous, the media censors could not keep this news off the air waves.
The Germans were monitoring the local news stations just off the east coast in a U-boat listening for any such news broadcasts predetermined by German espionage agents on shore by an ingenious simple code that would alert their "wolf packs" U-boats out at sea of the departure and route of the convoy.
The United States Government had assured the public that no German espionage was taking place here in the United States.
This a historical fictional story of espionage and heroic actions taken based on actual events leading up to and following the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.