Blood and Tide

By Erik L Seabury

When Detective Tommy Rollins catches a case in the Gaslamp District, the body looks routine. It isn't. The thread leads into the Harbor Division's corrupted heart, through a fourteen-month arms trafficking operation running stolen military hardware to a Sinaloa cartel procurement arm, and straight toward Victor Hale, a legitimate San Diego businessman whose charity gala portfolio is his best defense.
The investigation costs Tommy his partner's loyalty, his captain's career, his badge, and two years of his life. It costs Yasser Aziz his sister. It costs everyone something.
What comes after the case closes is harder to describe and more important. A framework built from the wreckage. A protocol that means the next detective won't have to cross an international border without sanction to get an outcome that should have been reachable another way. A curriculum in a room where twelve recruits learn to follow threads without losing themselves in the following.
Blood & Tide is a crime novel about what it takes to dismantle a resilient structure, and what you build from the cost of dismantling it. Set against the specific geography of San Diego, from the harbor cranes to the Encinitas eucalyptus, it is a story about the difference between justice and resolution, and about the work that continues when the case is closed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZ44GK8T
• ISBN13: 9798259257863
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"