Fifty years after the allied air assault on Truk sank scores of Japanese ships, the islands face a new danger. Agent Paul Gerhart and his team are assigned to investigate the threat, but are coerced into including a reluctant, high-strung marine ecologist, Keira Hall. She's intelligent, attractive, and temperamental. Diving the precarious World War II wrecks, the team encounters deadly resistance from within, and face more peril from a ruthless and powerful enemy. Rod Canham has a diverse background with nine years in Naval Aviation and twenty as a professional diver and underwater photographer. He has had more than fifty articles published on travel for international dive magazines culminating in Hawaii Below, a guide book for diving the Hawaiian Islands. His most recent book, the Artillerist, a Civil War novel, recounts experiences in the Civil War through the eyes of his great-grandfather.Rod and Kathy make their home in the Pacific Northwest.