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Charles Young: The Deep and Secret Things: A Christian Thriller of Truth, Lies, and the Voice Beneath the Sea
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lieutenant Commander Charles Young has spent eighteen years learning to listen. On a flat black night above the Tongue of the Ocean, a tone rises out of six thousand feet of water at a speed no machine on earth could survive - and for four seconds, it bends like a human voice.
By morning, men in unmarked flight suits have taken the tapes, razored the page out of the log, and put a form in front of him that says the night never happened.
Then they offer him something worse than silence. They offer him inside.
Read into a compartment that has hidden the truth about the sea for six decades, Charles finds the structures, the descent footage, and the recordings. He also finds the pattern nobody in the program has been willing to name: whatever is down there does not explore, does not negotiate, and does not threaten. It flatters. It reaches into a man, finds the wound he has never spoken aloud, and answers it perfectly.
It is not a civilization. It is a technique. And it is very, very old.
Charles Young cannot lie. It is not a virtue he cultivated - it is closer to an affliction, and it is about to cost him everything. A young sonar tech dies at the bottom of a stairwell. A diver comes back from 2,140 feet smiling at a corner of the ceiling. A chaplain with a Bronze Star quotes him half a verse of Scripture and eats the other half. An admiral takes him out on a boat on a beautiful morning and offers him the whole world for one sentence he knows is not true.
He will lose his clearance, his command, his name in the newspaper, and his pension. He will stand alone in a courtroom at Washington Navy Yard against the full weight of the United States government.
And he will not do it alone.
Because the one voice that never tells Charles Young what he wants to hear - that convicts him of his pride, exposes the hatred hiding inside his zeal, and refuses him even the promise that he will win - is the only one he comes to trust. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.
Charles Young is a naval suspense novel about the deep, the cover-up, and the difference between a true thing and a flattering one. It is a story about the courage that is left over after the applause is taken away, about a marriage that holds a door, an eighty-one-year-old master chief who prays at five in the morning, and a lawyer who does not believe a word of it and defends him anyway.
Scripture-soaked, Spirit-driven, and grounded in the black water where a man's pretending is taken away from him.
A man can be bound to silence. He cannot be bound to falsehood.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. - Psalm 107:23-24
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