Across the Black Water

A new Cold War ignites in the Pacific—and the Ingram family is caught in the crosshairs once again.

Lieutenant Commander Noah Ingram, grandson of the legendary Todd Ingram, commands a P-3 Orion patrol bomber hunting submarines across the South China Sea. When he discovers a secret Russian submarine hidden aboard a Chinese cargo ship, enemy fighters blow his aircraft from the sky. Dragged to a mainland prison and facing brutal interrogation, Noah's only escape is a desperate gamble: steal a fully fueled WWII P-51 Mustang and fly seven hundred miles across hostile ocean toward freedom.

Half a world away, the woman Noah loves harbors a deadly secret. Marika Dráva—nightclub singer and engineer—has just assassinated the Russian GRU sniper who murdered her mother during their escape from Communist Hungary. Now Kapitán Pyotr Sokolov, a disgraced military intelligence officer, has traced the killing back to Marika through a single spent cartridge. As he closes in for the kill, Chinese operative Charlie Wu hunts Noah across the Pacific, determined to recapture or eliminate the pilot who humiliated Beijing.