Not All Hands

Seventeen days at sea. No ports. No escape.

The M/S Elysium is carrying eight hundred passengers across the Atlantic on a luxury repositioning cruise from Italy to Barbados. At table six, strangers become uneasy companions: a brittle French marriage, a wealthy Swede and his younger partner, a priest, a journalist, a woman who prefers to eat alone, and others who have boarded the ship believing that two weeks at sea means peace, privacy, and reinvention.

But beneath the routines of formal dinners, pool decks, and polished service, something is wrong.

As tensions rise among the passengers and cracks begin to show among the crew, the voyage reveals a hidden reality below the waterline, one sustained by paperwork, silence, and the comforting illusion that everything important is always counted.

Not All Hands is a dark literary suspense novel about complicity, privilege, and the things that disappear inside systems designed to look flawless from the outside.