The Dying Light

Daniel Mason thought he understood the sea.

Assigned to the submarine USS Pike with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, Mason and his shipmates sense that the fragile peace in the Pacific is beginning to crack. The fleet is small, worn, and standing directly in the path of an expanding Japanese empire.

Then the news arrives.

Pearl Harbor has been attacked.

Within hours, Pike is at sea, carrying live torpedoes into the opening battles of the Pacific War. But nothing goes as planned. Torpedoes fail. Enemy destroyers hunt them through dark waters. Depth charges hammer the hull as the crew fights to keep the submarine alive.

As the war closes in, sailors throughout the boat begin turning to Mason when systems fail, and weapons refuse to fire. His instinct for machinery and calm under pressure make him the man the crew depends on when everything begins to break.

But survival in war comes at a cost—and the sea remembers every man it takes.

The Dying Light is the third novel in The Silent Depths, the sweeping historical submarine saga following one sailor's journey through the deadly early years of World War II.