The Sea of the Vanities is a sea adventure with supernatural overtones. Like the sea, the story is as strong and harsh as it is beautiful and mysterious. The story opens as Richard Shaw, an insurance investigator from Lloyds of London, arrives in Rio de Janeiro

As triumphant Allies sweep into Berlin at the end of WWII, they capture a prize more valuable than the gold of Shanghai or the exquisite paintings the Nazis stole from the Louvre: Hitler’s atomic scientists.

The story is part Steam Punk, part adventure, and wisps of fantasy laced with mystery: It is 1902 and Jack London is kidnapped off of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. He finds himself imprisoned aboard the submarine the Nautilus.