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Cold Truth
Book 1 in the Tales of the Sea series.
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Between the wars, the exploration vessel Alert sails into Arctic waters to search for a missing Swedish expedition. The voyage ends in failure, but decisions made amid ice, isolation and deteriorating discipline are concealed by the surviving officers rather than fully reported.
Years later, during the Battle of the Atlantic, the secret resurfaces aboard ships engaged in a different struggle for survival. The story connects polar exploration with wartime command, showing how professional loyalty can become complicity and how an old lie alters judgement when lives again depend upon the same men.