A Deep Blue Sounding - Dark Voyage with the U.S. Coast Guard (Paperback)

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cape Solace mysteriously sinks while on patrol off the coast of Florida, taking 26 crewmembers to a deep water grave. At the same time, Coast Guard Intelligence Agent Brad Thomas surfaces from a deep cover sting operation in New York City netting two "Coasties" involved in smuggling for the mob.

A Marine Board of Inquiry investigation yields no answers in the Cape Solace sinking and the New York sting is covered up.

What is happening to America's lifesavers, the "quiet service?"

That's what Agent Brad Thomas, his life destroyed by the sinking of a second Coast Guard cutter, sets out to discover on a deadly path of vengeance and redemption that leads from gritty Miami streets to the innermost corners of power in Washington.

A Deep Blue Sounding is the first novel in a trilogy by Donald Hutton, a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. The remaining two novels, Coxsackie and The Deputy Inspector General, are underway.