ACTION STATIONS.A skirmish between a Soviet submarine and the Royal Navy frigate Icarus during a routine NATO exercise seems insignificant... until the Soviet navy counterattacks in the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Faced with what it sees asunprovoked aggression, NATO responds by sending a task force. And as the fleet moves silently and unobtrusivelytowards the battle zone, politicians and servicemen draw their nations closer and closer to the most terrible catastrophe ever provoked by man ..."For anyone with an interest in the Navy or naval warfare, John Wingate"s FRIGATE would be hard to beat. It is completelyauthentic, particularly in its fluent use of the language of modern technology.. .The author has a message too: howevercomplicated and efficient the technology becomes, what matters most is the men and their morale". DAILY TELEGRAPH