 Burke Wilkinson, a U.S. naval officer, writing for "The Christian Science Monitor", called "The Last Ship" "extraordinary" and a "true classic", saying its sum was "greater than its parts".After the success of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", Steven Soderbergh had planned on adapting the book as his next film; however, he abandoned the project after several unsatisfactory screenplay drafts.In July 2012, the U.S. cable television network TNT ordered a pilot episode of a series based on the novel.