The Buffalo Hook — Richard Butler

Hagen was a Jonah. Call it jinx or coincidence, the fact remained that on every ship he commanded, somebody met with a violent death. Now they wanted him to penetrate the Bamboo Curtain with a ship crewed by graduates of every prison from Sing Sing to Singapore, and a luscious Eurasian nurse who was as good with a Beretta as a hypodermic. Hagen has a desperate race against the clock for the lives of men he had never met...