James ‘Remo’ Jackson is a former US Navy Chief Petty Officer with almost two decades of military experience. During his time in the Navy, most of it spent as a tactical instructor, he took part in fielding teams, Mobile Training Teams, and operated with other branches of the US Military.

As a contributing author to a few non-fiction works, short manuals and procedural text books, Up From the Depths was his first venture into fiction but certainly not his last.

And he was my advisor on all...