Landfall

After a long career at sea, Jake Thomas thinks he?s finally put his life in order. He?s got a new wife, a new home, time to tend his roses and to write. But his past and the secrets he?s kept, even from himself, won?t stay buried.

Forty years earlier, a woman was murdered during Jake?s first voyage as a deck cadet on the American freighter, the SS James Wait. Her children want answers only Jake can give. But resurrecting old memories takes him spiraling back to the chaos and upheaval of the late 1960s.

In this riveting story-within-a-story, Jake?s peaceful routine in Portland, Oregon, stands in stark contrast to his days as a merchant seaman in Subic Bay, when he set off on a journey to discover his dark side. A journey that hasn?t yet ended.

Like Joseph Conrad, Joseph Jablonski has created a novel set at sea that is as much a careful observation of human nature and a powerful condemnation of war as it is a fascinating sea story.