Dark Waters: A WWII Submarine Thriller

By Kael Ryke

Pearl Harbor took everything from him. Now he has one mission left.

December 1941. A Japanese Zero cartwheels out of the burning sky and destroys Commander Gavin Diesel's world in forty-five seconds. His wife. His daughter. Gone.

He wakes from a coma with nothing left but the war.

Two years later, Diesel commands the USS Swordback - a Balao-class fleet submarine, black-painted, fast, and armed with the new wakeless electric torpedoes that leave no trail for the enemy to follow. His reputation for aggressive tactics and ice-cold nerve under depth-charging has made him the Pacific Fleet's most effective submarine commander.

And now he's been handed an impossible mission.

A Japanese submarine is transporting 2,000 pounds of weapons-grade uranium across the Indian Ocean. Captured from Germany's atomic program. Bound for Tokyo. Enough to complete the world's first nuclear weapon - and change the outcome of the war.

The intercept will take Diesel and a platoon of Marine Raiders to a fortified island base where German and Japanese engineers are racing to mount nuclear warheads on long-range rockets capable of striking New York. Where an enslaved native population is working inside a mountain factory. And where Diesel will finally face the one man who might be his equal:

Commander Takemoto Shuji - the most dangerous submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, who has crossed the Pacific six times without being detected, and who has everything to lose.

Dark Waters is a high-octane WWII submarine thriller written with the tactical authenticity of a DiMercurio novel and the emotional scope of Das Boot. It follows three converging storylines - the American submarine crew hunting a ghost, the Japanese commander running one step ahead, and the German engineer who knows what his cargo will do and has built a locked room in his mind to keep himself from thinking about it.

From the torpedo rooms of Pearl Harbor to a sea cave on the edge of the Indian Ocean. From depth charges in the Lombok Strait to a sinking enemy submarine with the fate of the war in its hold.

Some victories cost everything.

Perfect for readers of Tom Clancy, Michael DiMercurio, and Alistair MacLean.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1998520994
• ISBN13: 9781998520992
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Weapons Free Publishing [A Division of Scott
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"