Petty Officer Doyle Murphy’s problem was not that he was prone to alcohol-fueled misadventure. It was that he reveled in it.

Like the Norse berserkers of old, Murphy was not above getting drunk and fighting an adversary naked on occasion. That, along with the notoriety he and his men gained during their boozy forays into Tijuana, is how he became known as one of the USS Belleau Wood’s Tequila Vikings.

When his penchant for blurring the line between fun and felony finally goes bad, Murphy lands a vulnerable subordinate at risk of spending years behind bars in a Mexican prison. Getting his man back means putting everything on the line: his fiancee, his career, his freedom, and even his life.

Can Murphy free his shipmate and keep a corrupt cartel cop from reducing everything he holds dear to ruins? Or will his self-destructive impulses lay it all to waste first?