No Salvation by Jeffery Hess
Narrated by Edison McDaniels
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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?
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Available right now at Audible and wherever fine audiobooks are sold!
For more information on the actual event that inspired this novel, check out the links below:
An article that appeared in Navy Times on 2/28/2017 about the race riot that occurred on the USS Kitty Hawk in October 1972 while steaming in the South China Sea. https://www.navytimes.com/military-honor/black-military-history/2017/02/28/race-riot-at-sea-1972-kitty-hawk-incident-fueled-fleet-wide-unrest/
A video of a black man in 2020 recalling his experience aboard the USS Kitty Hawk during the riot of October 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHYct4VaXBM
For a nonfiction account of the riot, try
Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk by Gregory A. Freeman.
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