The storm came out of a clear glass sky, and that was the first thing that was wrong with it.

Captain Daniel Rourke has spent twenty-six years at sea, long enough to trust two things above any instrument ever built. The feel of a deck under his boots, and weather that warns an honest man before it arrives. But the storm that swallows the USS George Washington keeps no bargain. It does not build. It assembles, as though something is putting it together on purpose.

Nineteen minutes later the sky is empty. No contrails. No satellites. No strike group. The most watched ocean on Earth has gone silent, the water is impossibly clear, and the air smells like a world that has not yet been set on fire to make it run. Ninety thousand tons of nuclear-powered warship and five thousand souls are exactly where they were, and nowhere they belong.

Now Rourke and his crew must hold discipline, ration what cannot be replaced, and decide what kind of people they will be in a world that has never seen their like. Because the ship was never the hull. The ship was always the people. And the storm is not finished with them yet.

A Nation of Thunder launches The Storm Wars Series, a military science fiction saga of command, faith, and the weight of doing right when the rules of the world fall away. For listeners who love high-stakes naval fiction, time-displacement adventure, and characters who lead under impossible pressure.