The Secret History of the Nevada Navy

The French want to kill him---again. First in the Paiute Indian wars, but now he is white-knuckle exhausted in wrestling the tiny pitching mini-sub off stormy Civil War Cape Hatteras. The French ironclad appeared in the middle of the Atlantic storm, six-inch guns blazing and intent on obliterating the vulnerable submarines in tow to attack the unsuspecting rebel ironclads at Charlestown.
He had unshakeable faith in his sub to submerge and escape---but at the last moment, he glimpsed through his periscope a stranded French sailor bobbing between the huge foamy rollers of the storm.
Time to decide what he stood for: Easy escape or surface to rescue a French sailor and chance certain death in a hail of shot?