{"product_id":"blacktide-reckoning-j-d-rourke-9798187192168","title":"Blacktide Reckoning: A Maritime Action Thriller of Deep-Sea Survival and Deadly Conspiracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ship was supposed to have died in a storm. The wreck says otherwise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer Coast Guard rescue swimmer Renn Mackey has built a quiet life beneath the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest. She trusts tide tables, pressure gauges, and steel more than she trusts people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a routine salvage survey takes her 140 feet down to the wreck of the \u003ci\u003eMV Prosper\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hull has been blown open from the inside.\u003cbr\u003eThe cargo manifest is a lie.\u003cbr\u003eAnd a sealed compartment holds equipment no civilian vessel should be carrying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenn removes a ruggedized data module from the wreck. Before she can surface, an armed response team boards the salvage tug. Her dive partner is killed, and Renn escapes by swimming blind through freezing water with the evidence strapped to her body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy morning, she is officially missing and presumed drowned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHunted along the Washington and Oregon coasts, Renn discovers that the \u003ci\u003eProsper\u003c\/i\u003e carried an off-the-books maritime surveillance system. Its destruction was ordered under a standing protocol built to erase compromised operations, control official investigations, and eliminate anyone who sees too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe files could expose the network. But digital evidence can be discredited, intercepted, or buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo make the truth impossible to ignore, Renn must return to the wreck during a violent Pacific storm and recover the hardware before the cleanup team reaches her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has one weather window. One borrowed boat. And no room left to run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ocean didn't kill the ship. Now the people who did are hunting the only witness left.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlacktide Reckoning is Book Three in the Rogue Protocol series.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. D. Rourke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187192168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d","brand":"J. D. Rourke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084321366271,"sku":"9798187192168","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blacktide-reckoning-j-d-rourke-9798187192168","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}