"The rules state you have to go out. Nothing is written that states you have to come back." -The Coast Guard Sea Journal -
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cape Solace mysterious sinks while on patrol off coast of the Florida, taking 26 crewmembers to a deep water grave. At the same time, Coast Guard Intelligence Agent Brad Thomas surfaces from a deep cover sting operation in New York City netting two "Coasties" involved in smuggling for the Mob.
A Marine Board of Inquiry investigation yields no answers to the Cape Solace sinking, and the New York sting is covered up. What is happening to America's lifesavers, the "quiet service"?
That's what Agent Brad Thomas, his life destroyed by the sinking of a second Coast Guard cutter, sets out to discover on a deadly path of vengence and redemption that leads from gritty Miami Streets to the innermost corridors of power in Washington.
There has never been a book like this before about the Coast Guard, written by one who was there in a critical time as a spy within the service.