About the Author Owen J. McNamara is the author of this gripping World War 1 tale centered on an incident involving an American naval aviator whose bombs sent a German U-boat to the sea bottom and a German seaman who is attempting to escape from that doomed submarine. America's new naval aviation force has joined the battle to stop German U-boats, which have proven deadly and seemingly unstoppable. The author relates how a convoy system involving allied destroyers, mystery ships, minefields, submarines, fixed balloons, blimps, and aircraft finally wins out. In this heated context, naval aviation began to prove itself and shape its future role. McNamara has been a reporter and editor at daily and weekly newspapers in New England, and was publications director at Boston University Medical Center. He has won the annual Golden Quill for editorial writing and was chosen for the international "Golden Dozen" on five occasions. A former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and distinguished fellow of the International Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors, he is a Navy veteran and Boston College graduate. He and his wife, Anne, have six children.