Captain McKnight, Captain of the Liberty ship HMS Curry is gearing up for a trip through the Arctic to deliver war materials to the Russian City of Murmansk. He and his top-notch crew of Merchant Mariners along with the Armed Guard will have to brave the icy Arctic Ocean while they dodge German submarines and bombers. Less than half the previous convoy of ships made it to their destination. Even fewer will make it back home. Join the crew as they enjoy port cities before they embark to the most dangerous destination of the Second World War. The crew must cope with a deck is covered with airplanes and tanks and holds that may have explosive war materials of any type. One mistake or lucky hit could send the Curry into the icy depths in minutes. The Curry must rely on escort ships to protect her from the German Submarines. Her on-board Armed Guard must launch a curtain of lead to protect her from the Luftwaffe's airborne bombs and torpedoes while the Captain and crew frantically steer the ship to safety. Meet a diverse crew from all over the country as they live and work together to protect their homes and family and country from the greatest menace of the 20th Century. But even escorts and guns can't protect the Curry from Mother Nature as she batters the ship with the ice and cold and waves of massive Arctic Storms and Rogue Waves. Only the superior seamanship of an expert crew and resourceful Captain can get the Captain and crew back home. All the brave and resourceful efforts of the Captain and crew can't compensate for an on-board saboteur. Maximum effort and cunning will be required to protect the Curry from the menace from within.They are preparing to carry Pitchblende, the ore from which Uranium is made. Fortune smiled on the United States in WWII when the purest deposit of Pitchblende ever found was delivered to New York before the war even began. Now we are trying to kick start the Manhattan Project. It is vitally important to obtain all the remaining pitchblende available. The Germans and Japanese also have atomic projects and the race to corner the world's market is essential to the war effort. The best material is in the Nazi controlled Belgian Congo. The solution is a ghost ship that had been sunk and reborn. Brave men and women working for the common goal have to step up and provide the world with the means to eradicate the Nazi menace. Once again it is up to ordinary people expending extraordinary effort to deny the most dangerous metal in the world to evil forces. Of course in the world of intrigue and espionage not everyone is who he or she seems. Based on historical fact this work of fiction involve the OSS - precursor to the CIA, Arctic Convoys to supply Russia, Pitchblende sources in Tropical Africa and high drama in the Caribbean Sea. It is important that we obtain the ore but it is even more important that we keep it from the Germans. The OSS has a plan and the President's approval but it will take daring and bravery to take the prize from deep in German controlled territory. Can we trick the Germans to help us obtain thousands of tons of Pitchblende? Will a well meaning saboteur ruin all the carefully laid plans? How does a an arctic trip to Murmansk figure into the story? Or the World's Fair? Or the first hurricane hunter flight? The story is fiction but is based on the actual history of the elephant in the Manhattan Project's elephant soup.