Iron Wake

Abducted from a dying coastal town and forced into slave labor aboard a lawless trawler in the North Atlantic, Elias Voss endures years of unspeakable cruelty. When a delayed, meticulously plotted mutiny finally erupts, the embers of vengeance ignite a brutal reckoning on the high seas. Yet, emerging from that floating hell only to face the cold machinery of international courts, Elias discovers that a fire extinguished too late leaves only cold ash—nothing left to rebuild, only ghosts to carry.