All the Drowning Seas — Alexander Fullerton

As the Japanese sweep across the Pacific, the Allies make a last-ditch effort to defend Java. Captain Nick Everard, commanding the cruiser Defiant, joins a mixed group of Allied ships to engage a superior Japanese invasion force. Nick is badly wounded and his ship is caught alone in the tightening noose of Japanese dominance. To escape, the battered Defiant must play a cat-andmouse game with the hunting Japanese among the islands of the Java Sea. The situation is made even harder to bear as Nick contemplates the possible
death of his son, Jack, in Crete, and the uncertain . fate of his other son, Paul, on convoy to Malta.