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February 13, 2006

My book VERTICAL DIVE came out in December, to good results. The blurb was:

As hurricane Helen barrels in toward the Virginia coastline, the U.S. Navy's Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet orders all vessels to scramble to sea, including Burke Dillinger's Hampton and Peter Vornado's Texas. But this is no mere storm evacuation.

There is something sinister going on in the eastern Atlantic. The Navy's eyes are on the ballistic missile submarine force, the "boomer" submarines loaded to the gills with intercontinental nuclear warheads. And the French boomer submarine Le Vigilant has "gone bad," hijacked by an Algerian terrorist with dreams of completing the circle of revenge and using French nuclear weapons on the French who killed his father.

As terrorist Issam Zauabri's forces learn how to employ the nuclear missiles, Vornado's Texas and Dillinger's Hampton close in on the threat, but Issam knows how to use torpedoes as well as he does the missiles, and Le Vigilant is one of the quietest submarines ever built. Once the American subs are on the bottom, his attack can proceed on Paris, but since it was Americans who interfered, Issam will save one missile for New York...

EMERGENCY // EMERGENCY // SSBN HIJACKED // CMDR J. GARDES SENDS

There's more about it on the author website, ussDevilfish.com.

I was invited onto Fox News for several days in a row to discuss the Russian submersible that was fouled on the bottom.

MORE! On VERTICAL DIVE

VERTICAL DIVE: As hurricane Helen barrels in toward the Virginia coastline, the U.S. Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet orders all vessels to scramble to sea, including Burke Dillinger’s Hampton and Peter Vornado’s Texas. But this is no mere storm evacuation. There is something sinister going on in the eastern Atlantic. The Navy’s eyes are on the ballistic missile submarine force, the “boomer” submarines loaded to the gills with intercontinental nuclear warheads. And the French boomer submarine Le Vigilant has “gone bad,” hijacked by an Algerian terrorist with dreams of completing the circle of revenge and using French nuclear weapons on the French who killed his father. As terrorist Issam Zauabri’s forces learn how to employ the nuclear missiles, Vornado’s Texas and Dillinger’s Hampton close in on the threat, but Issam knows how to use torpedoes as well as he does the missiles, and Le Vigilant is one of the quietest submarines ever built. Once the American subs are on the bottom, his attack can proceed on Paris, but since it was Americans who interfered, Issam will save one missile for New York… “Compelling and visionary. DiMercurio’s characters run as deep as his submarines themselves!” --Joe Buff, author of Straits Of Power, Tidal Rip, Crush Depth, Thunder in the Deep, And Deep Sound Channel.

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USSDEVILFISH.COM Michael DiMercurio Princeton, New Jersey E-mail: readermail@USSDEVILFISH.COM