Killer Waves by Brendan Dubois was a thoroughly good read, as good as anything on the current bestseller lists. It is a tightly-plotted story that ticks along at a cracking pace. The characters are credibly flawed, believable and likeable.

Retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole was obsessed with the current Space Shuttle mission to be awake and outside as the shuttle passed overhead. It was also the right time to see the lights of cars in the nearby seafront  reserve. And of course, even though it’s the middle of the night, he investigates and finds two local police officers at the scene of an apparent suicide.

As part of his retirement from the DoD, Tyler has a job as a journalist and so he sets about investigating what he decides was not a suicide, an opinion partly formed by the arrival of a team of federal agents claiming the deceased was a drug courier.

Cole is bullied by the Feds into helping unravel a WW2 secret involving a German U-boat and a small cargo of nuclear fuel.

An intriguing and feasible plot which unfolds at a good pace, characters that are sufficiently credible and likeable to cheer for and turn the page to ensure they survive and succeed.