"... Tim Cole has given us a unique sea-going crime thriller… and a bold new hero named Commander Jonas Pratt."

Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel and host of Dedicated with Doug Brunt on Sirius XM.

From the author of The Sea Glass Murders, 2021 finalist, Connecticut Book Awards 

 

August 1942

America is fighting back after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Round one will focus on the south Solomon Islands. The troopship James. F. Bridger is transporting seven thousand Marines toward the pivotal battle for the island of Guadalcanal. But one after another, Bridgers Marines are winding up dead. Enter small-town lawyer and Navy reservist Jonas Pratt, who finds and stops his ship’s killer. It will take a manhunt that only ends in the trenches and fighting holes of America’s opening land battle of the Pacific war.

“Tim Cole knows his stuff. Whether it’s catching a murderer at sea in the middle of a war or describing the horrors of that war on a battlefield. He’ll have you at attention in both places.”

Lieutenant Charles Horn, USN (Ret)