Professors of Southern Literature extol the virtues of local color writing. William Harris’ third novel, Wassau Sound, abounds with it. ….from the ebb and flow of the tides of the Atlantic Ocean to what a good Southern wife cooks for dinner. This is a tale about Judah Benjamin, middle aged, Jewish male, fed up with the rat race of politics who comes home to his roots and to live a quiet life aboard his boat, Solitude. Harris has included just about everything anyone could want in a novel – mystery, suspense espionage, lost love, friendship, myth and hurricanes, just to mention a few. The central theme of the novel centers around the Tybee Bomb, which was ditched somewhere off the coast of Tybee Island, February 5, 1958. This bomb was a 7,600 pound, Mark 15, hydrogen bomb, which to this day has eluded all man’s attempts for glory. No pun intended. Judah’s lifelong friend, Billy Aprillia, discovered the location of the bomb, and the novel "explodes" with cloak and dagger excitement until its conclusion. Anyone who has lived in or loved the Savannah area will delight in this novel.