DescriptionFrom the author of the blockbuster movie Crimson Tide comes this terrifying thriller set aboard the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II . The Queen is host to the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth who are gathered for an unprecedented summit on world peace and global cooperation. In ominous silence on the ocean floor, a group of ultra-nationalist Chinese terrorists inside the nuclear submarine Lijiang has set a course to intercept the ship. Meanwhile a small, deadly group of fanatics has already infiltrated the ship, taking the world and its leaders hostage. Now any misstep will mean the end of the delicate balance that passes for peace in our time.
DescriptionSilent at under 5 knots and capable of a massive nuclear punch, the 240-foot-long Russian Kilo Class submarine is one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built. Every Third World dictator covets the Kilo, and Russia has already fulfilled a fifth of a 10-vessel deal with China. Now it's up to the President's new national security advisor, the irascible Texan Admiral Arnold Morgan, to foil delivery of the other 8 Kilos. Morgan sends the U.S. Navy's most deadly Black Ops hit-squads deep into Russian waters for an operation in which one wrong move could literally start World War III.
DescriptionIt's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. It's a Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet; nothing can touch it. So when the first stunned me…
DescriptionOne of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. The Nixon administration launched a clandestine, half-billion-dollar project to recover the sunken K-129. The successful recovery effort helped forge new relations between the U.S. and the Soviets, even as it revealed a treacherous plan to provoke war between the U.S. and China, a plan that, had it succeeded, would have had devastating consequences.
DescriptionThe U.S. and China have emerged in the millennium as the pre-eminent superpowers. Japan and the U.S. have worked in secret at a disused nuclear safety research center on a remote island in the South China Sea to perfect a viable nuclear fusion reactor. Su…
DescriptionThe most highly efficient and lethal underwater ship ever built, H.M.S. Unseen, vanishes into the depths while on a training mission, baffling British and American military intelligence, including wily National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morga…
