The Last Ship

“Nevil Shute wrote a moving book, On the Beach, about the aftermath of a nuclear war…Now William
Brinkley has used the same premise to tell and even more fascinating
tale.”

“William Brinkley writes in expert detail about life on the
sea…Readers will be engaged by this ambitious tale, which draws on the legacies
of Melville and Conrad but is full of its own nuclear-age quandaries and
horrors.”

“An extraordinary novel of men at war, a superb portrait of
naval command, The Last Ship is a
powerful and exciting novel you will not want to miss.”

“Beautifully written…as if the narrator has set
himself the task of preserving the language, of writing it down lest it be lost
forever…Brinkley’s plot contains a series of unexpected reversals and the
tale’s conclusion is unforgettably intense…The
Last Ship is a magnificent book.”

“Extraordinary…Here is a true classic in the old-new literature of survival.”

“The author of Don’t
Go Near the Water superbly depicts life on a US Navy destroyer after a
heavy nuclear exchange…The captain’s narration is thoughtful and sensitive…More
than a military adventure, this is a first-rate study of beauty amid
ghastliness, engrossing to the end.”

“In an appropriately grim manner, Brinkley
entertains the ramifications of survival in the aftermath of World War
III. In the wake of a nuclear holocaust, a lone American naval vessel,
the destroyer Nathan James, sails the seas in desperate search of an
unscathed pocket of the earth…Narrated by the destroyer’s
reflective captain, this taut adventure relentlessly examines the
consequences of the unthinkable.”