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Ghost_Traffic: A Novel of the Silent Service | The War Patrols of Hal Garrett, Book Two
Commander Hal Garrett brings his boat home from her second war patrol carrying more than battle damage. Somewhere behind him, a radio operator is still transmitting on a frequency that should have gone dead weeks ago, and every hour that traffic stays on the air is an hour someone has to decide what it means and what to do about it.
Garrett has a damage log, a crew that did their job, and a debriefing waiting for him at Pearl with a decision already half made without him. What he does not have is time. The next patrol is coming, the arrangement that got them through Christmas Eve may not hold twice, and somewhere out past the Luzon Strait a signal keeps going out from a ship that should not be sending anything at all.
This is submarine war fiction built the way a patrol report is exact, procedural, and unwilling to look away from what the numbers cost. If you want the tension of a depth-charge attack and the quiet gut punch of a letter from home in the same book, Ghost Traffic delivers both, and asks what a commanding officer is allowed to carry alone.
Book Two of The War Patrols of Hal Garrett, an ongoing series following one submarine commander through the length of the Pacific War.
Garrett has a damage log, a crew that did their job, and a debriefing waiting for him at Pearl with a decision already half made without him. What he does not have is time. The next patrol is coming, the arrangement that got them through Christmas Eve may not hold twice, and somewhere out past the Luzon Strait a signal keeps going out from a ship that should not be sending anything at all.
This is submarine war fiction built the way a patrol report is exact, procedural, and unwilling to look away from what the numbers cost. If you want the tension of a depth-charge attack and the quiet gut punch of a letter from home in the same book, Ghost Traffic delivers both, and asks what a commanding officer is allowed to carry alone.
Book Two of The War Patrols of Hal Garrett, an ongoing series following one submarine commander through the length of the Pacific War.
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2026
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