Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir

by Khadijah Queen

It's the late 1990s--Tupac is taking over radio waves, Inkster, Michigan is as Midwest as ever, and a young Khadijah Queen has just been recruited to join the U.S. Navy while working her day job at RadioShack. In light of her dwindling college tuition fund, her mother's alcoholism and sisters' addictions, and an impending future of minimum wage retail jobs, Bootcamp doesn't sound so bad.

But soon after Khadijah completes her grueling training...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538771152
• ISBN13: 9781538771150
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Legacy Lit
• Length: 352 Pages