Murder on Pratas Reef
FINALIST for the 2007 National Best Books Award in Historical Fiction. 

 

 

 

 

 

This exciting novel is a page-turning fictionalized account of an actual event.  In July 1965, a US Navy destroyer has run aground on Pratas Reef in the South China Sea. The officers and crew must to free the ship, but the body of an obvious murder victim is discovered after the grounding. An immense salvage operation ensues, and the heat, humidity, constant danger, and the added stress of the murder investigation, the burgeoning Vietnam conflict, the civil rights movement, and the Watts riots affect the men and their morale as they attempt the impossible feat.

$19.95