Captain Alex Coleman isn’t the hero the U.S. Navy asked for.
He is the hero the navy needs.
Captain Alex Coleman is the hero of the hour. Battling to save Convoy 57 earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor and a new submarine, USS Bluefish. Unfortunately, while Bluefish looks like a plum command on the surface, the attack submarine is the saddest boat in the fleet, with a demoralized crew whose spirits were broken by their previous captain. It’s Alex’s job to put them back together, because they’re going back into the fight one way or another...and Alex likes living, thank you very much.
One impossible mission after another adds up as Alex knits his new crew together. Transitioning from an outcast to the go-to submarine commander is enough to make anyone’s head spin, but Alex is an introvert with a stubborn streak. He’ll never like the fame, but he’ll do his duty every time. But World War III remains a desperate conflict, and the United States and her allies have their backs against the wall. Alliance submarines and their crews continue to disappear at an alarming rate, so it’s up to Alex and the crew of USS Bluefish to change the odds.
This time, it won’t be easy. No one’s going to underestimate Alex ever again. Even worse, he finds himself—an introvert with the habit of saying just the wrong thing when a camera is around—saddled with the submarine navy’s first embedded reporter. Facing a rival in the form of his own former captain, who hates the very ground Alex stands on, as well as enemy submariners burning to make their reputation out of bringing him down, Alex must figure out how to keep pulling off the miracles that his country needs to keep them in the fight. But as missile shortages cripple the surface fleet, the pressure just keeps ratcheting up...
Alex has danced where the fire is hottest since Convoy 57. He reshaped a failing crew and gave them confidence. Can he keep this pace up, or will he finally crack? Can even Alex Coleman continue to take the fight to the enemy after so long on the front lines?
