Title: Colour of Bleach
Subtitle (Recommended): A Combat Veteran's Memoir of War, Water, and the Search for Self

In the depths, he found what the surface could not give him.

Kevin P. Wallace returned from war with invisible wounds and a darkness that seeped into every canvas he painted. His cameras had been an extension of himself in Afghanistan?tools of observation, of survival. But years later, sitting at Dulles International Airport on November 10, 2018, he was about to trade the weight of a rifle for the weight of a scuba tank.

Colour of Bleach is the raw, unflinching story of a combat-wounded veteran who set out to link up with seven fellow warriors and veteran advocate Jill Brickey Hottel for a journey to the Central Caribbean Marine Institute in Little Cayman. What began as a nervous conversation with fellow veteran Ryan Rivera became a descent into a world far removed from the deafening noise of D.C. politics?a world of remarkable creatures, silent reefs, and a profound new understanding of the oceans that connect us all.

But this is more than a diving adventure. It is a reckoning. Wallace traces his awakening back to 2006, when a news story about a northern bottlenose whale lost in the Thames River captured his attention and never let go. That whale's death from kidney failure and dehydration was a signal?one he ignored for years. Colour of Bleach is the story of what happens when a warrior finally stops ignoring the call of the sea.

For readers of Reef Life, Sea Change, and Civilianized, this is a memoir of art and destruction, of invisible wounds and visible healing, and of one veteran's discovery that the ocean does not care about your past?but it might just save your future.