Jimmy McKee had seen a man burnt to death, a rigger crushed by a propeller, and an apprentice lose his left eye when a grinding wheel exploded in his face, all before his twenty-first birthday. But he didn't know that there were even more sinister ways to die on the waterfront... Jimmy finds family and purpose as a welder at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, constructing boilers that power massive aircraft carriers at the same time the Navy mandates the use of a robotic welding process that guarantees to save money at the expense of shipyard jobs. But when the robotic welds fail during sea trials on the USS Saratoga , an influential Navy admiral blames the leaking boilers on human error and orders a tiger team of welders and boilermakers to make repairs at the ship's homeport in Florida. Just as the team is set to finish, four men are killed in a horrific accident. Jimmy discovers that one of the dead men had information that proved the robotic welding process was scientifically flawed. He
Author : Jim Brennan
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ISBN-10 : 9781946702722
ISBN-13 : 9781946702722