Sea of Bones: a Patrick Featherstone thriller

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About Sea of Bones: a Patrick Featherstone thriller

Tensions between the United States and China are at a breaking point. The American president and the Chinese premier have ginned up the stakes of the geopolitical game to a threat level that could culminate in World War III. A possible bargaining chip emerges: The son of the Chinese premier who had been studying at Oxford University has now gone missing. Was he kidnaped? Does he want to defect? Enter Patrick Featherstone, former sniper in the Joint Special Operations Command, who has the skill set to track the youth down and find out if he can be used to ratchet down the standoff between the two countries. Featherstone travels first to England, where he learns that the boy has a secret life of drugs and promiscuity. Now he is nowhere to be found. But Featherstone learns that the boy has traveled to Hawaii in hopes of breaking his addiction through the help of the traditional huna health practices of ancient Hawaii. Once in Hawaii, Featherstone teams up with another Special Forces veteran, Arlen Noyes, who has recently completed his final tour of duty in the Middle East. An initial rivalry between the two becomes a friendship rooted in their shared interest in mysticism. They find the son of the Chinese premier in a remote part of Oahu and try to bring him to Pearl Harbor for debriefing, but along the way they are ambushed by agents of China’s State Security Ministry who kidnap the boy and attempt to abscond with him back to China via a submarine that has entered Hawaii’s waters. Featherstone and Noyes manage to engage the submarine before it can enter international waters, which ratchets up the hostility between the United States and China to the point of no return. Featherstone and Noyes must succeed, or a global conflagration will consume humanity.

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