Right to Know

About the Book

A missing fishing boat. A damaged submarine. What happened? Reporters Sarah Holmes and Jake McGill discover that the answer is much worse than they could ever have imagined. They flee for their lives and must make a horrifying decision.

Sarah, a divorced mother of one and a new reporter for the New London Telegraph, teams up with Jake, a hard drinking, veteran newsman, to cover the story: How could a brand new boat with five experienced fishermen aboard disappear in calm weather without a trace?

For Sarah the mystery has an added urgency because she has only recently become involved with the captain of the missing fishing boat.

In their search for the truth, the pair breach the security of a major defense plant and fly to Washington, D.C., to visit the Russian embassy and to seek help from a U.S. senator. Their efforts are in vain. They must flee for their lives and find themselves branded as traitors.

Ultimately, they grapple with a dilemma: Should they write and publish what they have learned when doing so could almost certainly mean the loss of many lives, or should they remain silent--at the risk of an even greater loss of life?

About the Author

A reporter and bureau chief on a major daily newspaper for many years, Neild B. Oldham has written several college and high school level textbooks. Today, with his wife, he runs The Oldham Publishing Service, publisher of a monthly newsletter, The New London Gazette. He is president of a local historical society and was an interpreter and teacher at the Mystic Seaport Museum. Jack Thompson was a newspaper reporter, writer, and editor, then a journalism professor. For the past 12 years he has sailed around the world in TurtleDove, a 36-foot wooden ketch he built himself. He has lived aboard the boat in the Bahamas, Panama, Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, Indonesia, Kenya, West Africa, Spain, and most recently in Brazil. He is the author of Naked in the Rain, a nautical thriller.