(493 pages)
Respected career naval officer runs afoul of POTUS in a meeting because the officer can't do anything except speak with complete honesty. Assigned as punishment to be captain of a small ship - he had championed the prototype though it's decided no more will be built. So it's a one-of-a-kind vessel. Things get hot in the Middle East and the protagonist takes the ship and a hastily-assembled crew of Navy folks and a half-dozen SEALS into action. A lot of action!
And I very much liked the action sequences - lots of detail about operations and weaponry of the modern Navy, also the skillsets of the SEALs. This was very good, I was impressed. Seems like the author knows a lot about this.
Less good were the characters - this part of the book was comparatively weak. The protagonist and his lover were idealized (the love story part very meh); the terrorists were without a shred of humanity; the law firm, naval career types, politicians including POTUS were completely shallow. Some of the crew characters were pretty interesting.
There is a court martial - this part was OK, of course his lawyer is superb-plus.
Some cranky comments here but I very much enjoyed the book and was tugged right along.
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