It is 1917 and The Wolf has come to hunt the waters of the South Pacific...
An Australian woman named Mary Cameron and her family are captured as they sail across the Pacific from the US to the Australian mainland. The Australian warship HMAS Sydney attacks a German raider off the Cocos Islands, creating an inferno that kills 130 men. The burnt-out wrecks of three vessels are spotted by passing ships in the oceans north-east of New Zealand. An explosion rips through the hull of a cargo ship as it sails from Sydney to New Zealand with mail destined for Europe.
The story of The Wolf is one of the most extraordinary in the history of Australia's First World War. Far from Gallipoli and the trenches in France, just as crucial a battle was being fought at sea as the Germans aimed to squeeze supplies to and from the US, Britain and her Allies. The Wolf was an ordinary fighter fitted out with a hidden arsenal of weapons, including a plane, The Wolfcub, rumoured to have flown over Sydney on a reconnaisssance mission. It operated by stealth, planting mines, capturing innocent civilians and sinking their ships and cargo. As her mission continued so did the number of prisoners in her hold where casualties of the war from across the world were forced together at the hands of The Wolf's maverick commander. The situation was almost too much for Mary Cameron to bear...
A genuine page-turner, The Wolf sits alongside the best military history published in Australia to date.
About the Author
Richard Guilliatt has been a journalist for 30 years. He was a feature writer at The AGE newspaper, before moving to New York in 1986 to work as a freelance writer. His work has appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines, including THE INDEPENDENT, THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. In 2000 he won Australia's highest award for magazine feature writing, the Walkley Award. Peter Hohnen was a partner in a prominent Canberra law firm for 20 years. A commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for two decades, he was posted to Cambridge University in 1999 to study the law of the sea and the laws of armed conflict as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has been an independent legal consultant to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and has made several contributions to the AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY. His great-uncle, Alexander Ross Ainsworth, was chief engineer aboard the steamship MATUNGA when it was captured by SMS WOLF in August 1917.
