Set in the dark days of the cold war in the 1960's, Salt's War is the first instalment in the truly moving and inspirational story of a young man's quest as he struggles against overwhelming odds to achieve his life-long ambition of becoming an officer in the Royal Navy.
Sam Salt's comfortable life is turned completely upside down when his father is tragically and mysteriously killed in an underwater submarine collision, whilst out on patrol as captain of HMS Narwhal. A few months later his mother struggling to accept life without her devoted husband commits suicide, and sadly without sibling's or relatives to turn to, Sam is packed off to a Royal Naval funded orphanage called T.S. Seaway set on the Menai Straits in Anglesey North Wales.
T.S. Seaway turns out to be anything, but an ordinary orphanage and he's soon plunged into the treacherous dark murky world of Soviet espionage and gruesome murder's that are taking place. An old enemy appears in the form of Soviet Kapitan Leonid Medhev Kapitan of the M410, a Russian Quebec class attack submarine, the same submarine that collided with Narwhal, killing his father, Captain Brian Salt. Surviving Seaway turns out to be the biggest challenge the young Salt has ever faced.
