The French Atlantic Affair

From flap: The whole world believes she is on her regular course from New York to Le Havre with 3000 passengers aboard. And then the shocking truth is revealed to a selected few on land and at sea: the S.S. Marseille, 65,000-ton pride of the French Atlantic Line, as been secretly taken over in mid-ocean by 174 shadowy conspirators and diverted toward a rendezvous in the southern Antlantic. Unless a ransom of $35,000,000 in gold is paid within forty-eight hours, the ship and all her passengers will be blown up.