The Squueze

Imagine being trapped in a rusted iron tube three hundred feet beneath the freezing Arctic Ocean, dodging depth charges from a German destroyer, when something much worse wakes up down in the abyss.

The Squeeze follows Arthur Pendelton, a twenty-two-year-old First Lieutenant aboard His Majesty’s Submarine Odin during World War II. After sinking a German blockade runner, Arthur and his captain make the risky call to surface and pull five freezing enemy survivors out of the water. But before they can even process what they’ve done, a German warship ambushes them, forcing the Odin into a terrifying dive past crush depth.

Just when they think they’ve hidden in the thermal layers, the boat is hit by a slow, agonizing drag. Deep underwater, the explosion of the depth charges has woken an ancient titan—a monster from the trench that wraps its colossal tentacles around the hull and begins squeezing.

To survive, British and German sailors have to lie side-by-side on the pitch-black, freezing deck plates in total radio silence, listening to the rasping suckers scrape against the iron, hoping the leviathan loses interest before the air runs out.

It’s part intense WWII military thriller, part creature-feature horror, and at its heart, a surprisingly moving story about two men on opposite sides of a war who bonded in the absolute dark—and carried the memory of the deep with them for the rest of their lives

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Bayberry Audiobooks · Ep 12 - The Squeeze