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The Orders Remained
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ISBN13: 9798171949198
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rear Admiral Thomas Vale arrives in the Persian Gulf expecting to oversee the final days of a short American campaign. Washington has already declared victory. The President is celebrating a historic success. The mission, everyone is assured, is almost finished.
Then the Strait of Hormuz refuses to cooperate.
Then the Strait of Hormuz refuses to cooperate.
Shipping slows. A ceasefire becomes a framework, then a security phase, then another reason to remain. Each new order is lawful. Each extension is reasonable. And together they begin to resemble a war no one is willing to admit is still being fought.
Across the water, Iranian Rear Admiral Dariush Farzan is trapped inside a different version of the same problem. The two men remain adversaries, but as political language hardens and naval forces move closer to disaster, each becomes one of the few people able to read what the other is actually doing.
When an Iranian-origin mine kills seven American sailors, restraint becomes politically dangerous, certainty becomes valuable, and one misread movement could turn a lingering crisis into a much larger war.
Darkly satirical, morally serious, and shaped by the ancient idea of the long journey home, The Orders Remained is a novel about victory declared too soon, duty without clarity, and the people who must live inside the distance between what governments say and what the world will allow.
Across the water, Iranian Rear Admiral Dariush Farzan is trapped inside a different version of the same problem. The two men remain adversaries, but as political language hardens and naval forces move closer to disaster, each becomes one of the few people able to read what the other is actually doing.
When an Iranian-origin mine kills seven American sailors, restraint becomes politically dangerous, certainty becomes valuable, and one misread movement could turn a lingering crisis into a much larger war.
Darkly satirical, morally serious, and shaped by the ancient idea of the long journey home, The Orders Remained is a novel about victory declared too soon, duty without clarity, and the people who must live inside the distance between what governments say and what the world will allow.
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