It was interesting to read the first book in this series last. Cameron was a solid and interesting character who carried on through thick and thin as they would have said in his time frame. The iconic able reserve officer succeeding in a navy still living in the past. McCullough could have set the stories in the US Navy without much change. Most of the US Navy battles fought around and in the time of the Guadalcanal campaign were a complete shambles with much loss of ships and lives. Curiously, I was able to finish the series via an interlibrary loan with the last 2 books coming from Long Beach CA and Monmouth County NJ. In each case, the last previous checkout date was in the 1980s. Hooray for library archives. ( )