The steamship Doraine slips out of a South American port carrying a cargo of restless passengers and something far more dangerous than anyone suspects. Among them: a celebrated captain named Weatherby Trigger, a collection of influential figures from every conceivable field, and a stowaway named Algernon Adonis Percival a man whose charm is matched only by his talent for keeping secrets. Then the Doraine vanishes. No wreckage. No distress signal. No trace. Only speculation about what happened in those final days at sea, what truths the passengers carried, and whether Percival's mysterious presence was coincidence or something far more sinister. Set against the shadowed backdrop of World War I, McCutcheon weaves a tale where wartime paranoia meets the ancient terror of the open ocean. The result is a gripping puzzle wrapped in adventure, asking what happens when a ship full of strangers disappears and only rumors remain.
