Dead Lock
Nearly 90% of the iron ore Allied defense plants depended on during WWII came from the mines of Northern Michigan and Minnesota. To reach their destinations south of the Great Lakes, the ore boats had to travel through the Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Only a hand-full of Americans are aware of the crucial role those locks played in the history of the war.
As you might imagine, the locks were heavily guarded. More than 7,600 American troops were stationed in Sault Ste. Marie make sure the Nazis couldn’t harm them. That is a matter of record, as is the presence of the anti-aircraft artillery and giant barrages the troops used to protect those locks.
Against this fabric comes a plot so carefully woven you’ll swear it actually happened.
Darcy James, a reporter for the Detroit Times, is forced to leave town by the Detroit mob that wants to stop the stories she is writing about them. She travels to Sault Ste. Marie and works for her uncle’s newspaper. Investigating the murder of a close friend, she runs headlong into a Nazi plot to destroy the Soo Locks and cut ore shipments to Allied plants cold.