DEEP SEA - Indianapolis

A World War II Survival Horror Novel Based on a True Naval Disaster

The mission was secret. The sinking was swift. The nightmare was just beginning.

After delivering components for the atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II, the crew of the USS Indianapolis sails for home. But their triumph is short-lived. A volley of Japanese torpedoes tears their ship apart, plunging nearly nine hundred men into the vast, unforgiving darkness of the Pacific Ocean.

Adrift with no rescue in sight, the survivors face a new enemy: the endless sea itself. Under the burning sun, dehydration and madness begin to claim them one by one. But when the water is broken by hundreds of circling fins, their desperate fight for survival descends into a new level of hell.

For Petty Officer Ray Hawkins, the battle is not just against the ravenous sharks that infest the water, but against the fracturing of his own mind. Pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, he must confront the monsters in the deep and the demons within himself. This is a harrowing tale of humanity stripped bare, a visceral account of the terror, sacrifice, and the haunting will to live amidst the single greatest loss of life at sea in U.S. Navy history.