Welcome To USSDevilfish.com, Cyberspace Home Of National Bestselling Submarine Fiction Author Michael DiMercurio

“Compelling and visionary. DiMercurio’s characters run as deep as his submarines themselves!”
--Joe Buff, author of Crush Depth and Thunder in the Deep
"DiMercurio really knows his subs...his characters step right off the sub deck and onto his pages."
--Larry Bond
"A Master Rivaling Tom Clancy."
--Publishers Weekly
"Terrific."
--San Francisco Examiner
"Thrilling."
--Associated Press

"Superb storytelling."
--Virginia-Pilot/Ledger Star

The Control Room:

CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	This is where it all begins. Computer on the desk, laptop ready, sepia-colored globe with an atlas underneath, land line, cell phone, CNN playing in the corner and the “command chair.” The paperweight by the globe is an HY-80 high yield 80,000 psi steel chunk taken out of the hull of the USS Hammerhead during her 1984 overhaul, the only one that was not welded back in. By rights it should have belonged to the captain, but the Ship Superintendent gave it to me instead. Note the “Wall of Honor” on the writing desk wall.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	This chair in the corner is where my wife Patti will sit down to talk with me while I’m in the command chair. It’s also good for rereading and editing the work. More of the “Wall of Honor” in the background. I was certain the photo had captured a ghost, since the house may be haunted, but Patti pointed out that I had just gotten the camera strap in the picture.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	This is the auxiliary desk, where the laptop can plug into power and the printer. I use it for editing and bill-paying, since I don’t want my emotions at the main desk to clutter or stall out from thoughts of bills or line editing. The wood witness chair has been replaced with an auxiliary command chair.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	The wall behind the desk facing away from the window. The bureau in the back was hand made by my father for my daughter Meghan. I temporarily hijacked it for the office. The “Wall of Honor” continues.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	The wall behind the desk features a model of the Hammerhead crafted by a movie prop-maker, the isometric diagram of the first Devilfish, a 688 sub making a bow wave (left) and the Hammerhead commissioning picture (right). On the lower right is the T-shirt that inspired the flag of the Unified Submarine Command. Below the sub is a silver tray I won at Annapolis for my class rank.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	Bookshelf filled with research and promotional books. A place to toss down the briefcase. My officer’s cap and shipyard hardhat are on top. My second hardhat, listing me as Hammerhead’s Main Propulsion Assistant, was consigned to the deep under the bow of the submarine at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	French doors lead to the TV room. The room’s clutter is somehow comforting.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE	In the corner of the editing desk is a clock from the Russian submarine force. It weighs about twenty pounds and keeps great time, but needs to be wound.