Boy Scouts in the North Sea; Or, the Mystery of "U-13

In the cold gray waters of the North Sea, four American Boy Scouts are racing toward home, and straight into the heart of a war they never asked to fight. When Ned Nestor, Jimmie McGraw, Jack Bosworth, and Harry Stevens set sail for America, they expect nothing more adventurous than a smooth voyage across the Atlantic. Instead, they find themselves tangled in a naval mystery involving the German submarine U-13, caught between enemy waters and the desperate machinery of world conflict. What begins as a straightforward journey home becomes a tense cat-and-mouse game with death itself, as the boys must rely on their Scout training, tracking, signaling, and sheer nerve, to survive. Ralphson, writing in the breathless style of 1910s adventure fiction, packs his narrative with narrow escapes, hidden codes, and the constant threat of submarine attack.