No Salvation
by Jeffery Hess
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Pub Date May 27 2019 | Archive Date Jun 21 2019
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Description
Inspired by actual events, No Salvation features the USS Salvation as it sails for months on end in the South China Sea in the violent closing days of the Vietnam War. Exhaustion, drugs and discontent run rampant aboard ship and crew morale is at an all-time low. These conditions affect four thousand men being sequestered for months on end without port visits has everyone on edge. This is 1972, a time when inequality and racial tension permeated ships fleet-wide. As a way to mitigate racial unrest, the ship's captain brings in Commander Robert Porter as his Executive Officer. Commander Porter isn't sure if he's been selected for the job because of his skills or for the color of his skin, but the black crew doesn't accept him. Amid rampant drug use and various forms of sabotage, the biggest challenge to the ship's performance and the crew's safety is a series of violent attacks made by planes launching from the flight deck, but more perilous are the racial tensions boiling below. Porter is uniquely positioned to save them all, but can he? If so, at what cost?
Advance Praise
"Truth, as they say, may be stranger than fiction, but novelist and award-winning editor, Jeffery Hess, manages to masterfully blend both in No Salvation. Based on actual events from another era, Hess’s novel with page-turning cinematic appeal sizzles with gritty realism and uncomfortable truths regarding racial tensions aboard a U.S. Navy carrier. Whether readers side with the pacifist or the war hero, No Salvation proves neither is free of a healthy dose of self-appointed righteousness. Only Hess could have so deftly revealed history in such a way as to provide a poignant, equalizing reminder—just when we need it most—of the dangers associated with pre-judging outcomes; as for No Salvation, don’t even try. I dare readers to walk away unchanged—in how they see others, and how they see themselves in the world." —Tracy Crow, author of Eyes Right: Confessions of a Woman Marine
"In a skillful fictionalization of the racial discord aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in 1972, Mr. Hess has created an unflinching picture of life aboard a Navy carrier forty-seven years ago, in a work that builds in tension with each chapter to a decisive climax, bloody, but prescient with hope. A navy veteran himself with an unerring eye for detail, Hess portrays naval life at a visceral level; the vibrations of the engines, the steel of the companionways, the stink of jet fuel, the ever-present cramped quarters of 5,000 men on an extended tour in the South China Sea during wartime. What Mason’s Chickenhawk did for the Air Cav, No Salvation has done for the Navy." —Raymond Hutson, author of Finding Sgt. Kent
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781948235860 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
