Winged Escort

By: Douglas Reeman

Narrated by: David Rintoul

As the Second World War progresses, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Fighter pilot Tim Rowan is posted to an escort carrier to help guard the precious convoys. His adventures take him first to the Arctic and then the Indian Ocean.©1977 Douglas Reeman (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

I wish they could remove the awkward romance.

When that serious gentlemanly narrator describes romance, I break out in laughter. Narrator's perfect btw. Just something that didn't translate well for me from text to audiobook.

Superb WW II fiction

Many years ago I read every book written by Douglas Reeman. Each book was an adventure and I never felt let down. Now I only listen to books.
It was wonderful to find that they selected a reader that really does justice to the works of Douglas Reeman.

I thoroughly enjoyed Winged Escort and look forward to the rest of his books being released.

By the way if you like the age of sail Douglas writes this era under the pen name of Alexander Kent which are also excellent and I'm glad to say now being released by Audible.

Good book great story

I first read this as a condensed book many years ago
Have enjoyed this author since.

Not his best effort

Reeman is a formula writer and a one trick pony: I love the trick he does and I come back over and over to see it again. Unfortunately, this is an off night for the performance. Nominally a story about pilots and aircraft, it has great trouble getting off the ground and staying there. I think he's just a bit out of his element writing about pilots rather than men of the sea. The villain here, an RN admiral, is really hackneyed and hardly disagreeable or even villainish.... he's just annoying and on stage far too often. The lead characters are surprisingly vaguely drawn by Reeman and not engaging, either. It has its ups and downs and just barely crosses the finish line in the positive column.