Fightin' Navy #88

An obsolete American battlewagon bristles with frustration—her crew yearns for real naval combat, not shore bombardment—until a missed radio message and a chance encounter send her steaming toward an enemy battleship in the North Pacific. When radar picks up what neither captain expects to find, the stage is set for the very fleet action the old dreadnought's men have been dreaming of. In this tale of fate and gunnery, an aging warship gets her moment to prove she's far from finished.

In "The Crippled Raider," a U.S. destroyer, damaged in battle and thought lost, takes refuge in a remote atoll. With its repairs completed in secret, the ship slips out under cover of night, hunting Japanese transports before vanishing again into the shadows of a hidden Philippine cove.

When Lieutenant Taube is shot down over the Caribbean during a routine training flight in 1955, he discovers he's stumbled onto a covert war—one the Navy has kept hidden from the public. Assigned to a secret squadron of pilots tasked with hunting enemy submarines operating in peacetime, Taube must adapt from lawyer to combat flyer and learn to strike first without mercy. As radar contacts lead to deadly aerial duels and coordinated attacks with destroyers, he'll find out just how far the Navy is willing to go to protect the nation in the shadows.