The Silent Depths

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Living Boat</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book One of The Silent Depths Series</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Before the war before the glory-there was only the sea.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1937 seventeen-year-old </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daniel Mason</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a Midwestern farm boy hungry for adventure enlists in the U.S. Navy and finds himself at </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Submarine School in Groton Connecticut</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Life beneath the waves isn't the romantic adventure he imagined-it's hot loud and claustrophobic ruled by the rhythms of machinery and the will of the sea itself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Under the stern guidance of veteran Chief Red Hanley Mason learns what it takes to survive in a world where every mistake could mean death. From the diesel fumes and pressure hulls of the </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>USS Pike</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to the bars and backstreets of San Diego and Tijuana he discovers brotherhood fear and a strange sense of belonging aboard a boat that seems almost alive.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the calm before war is fading fast. As tensions rise across the Pacific Mason earns his dolphins and his place among the crew-just as whispers of Japanese submarines stir the water off the West Coast. When the Pike receives sudden orders to dive Mason realizes his real journey has only begun.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For readers who love </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Hunt for Red October</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Run Silent Run Deep</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Band of Brothers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Living Boat</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the unforgettable beginning of an epic World War II submarine saga-where man machine and ocean become one.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The boat breathes. The sea is awake.</strong></p><p></p>