 "Hammersley" has been assigned to peacekeeping duties in the Samaru Islands, and this is keeping him far from home for extended periods, and back home things are not going well as both he and his wife, Sally, are finding it hard with him away from them both for weeks at a time.And now Sally has put her foot down, telling him to get a shore posting.For Swain, it's an almost impossible choice, and he's left in an agony of indecision as he tries to get through every day on the seas, away from his family.