The SS Trikkala and her cargo of silver sank off the coast of Norway in 1944 Only a handful of crew survived - among them Jim Vardy, who came home not to a hero's welcome but to a court martial and imprisionment for mutiny News that the survivors were mounting a salvage operation made his suspicions about the ship's end, sharp reality, and sent him on a long-cold trail from Scotland to the freezing North Atlantic to find the truth and clear his name