Straits of Power Joe Buff
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 0060594683
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-12-01
Summary:
The next world war rages. With the Allies at a stalemate with the
Berlin-Boer Axis, every battle takes on a new significance. But in a
conflict fought with billion-dollar technology and campaigns
comprising millions of soldiers, the outcome may rest in the hands of
a single man ... Commander Jeffrey Fuller, captain of America's most
sophisticated and deadly fast-attack nuclear submarine, the USS
Challenger, is accustomed to victory in battle. But for his latest
mission he is informed that the only way he can succeed is if he
crosses into enemy waters -- without firing a single shot. His
objective: recover a spy. The world of espionage is unknown territory
for Fuller. He is ordered to locate an asset, code-named Zeno, who
may hold the key to staving off a crippling Axis attack. But this new
world is full of lies, feints, and betrayals. In combat, Fuller
always knows who his enemy is and how to defeat him. In the shadow
world of covert operatives and counterintelligence, the distinction
between enemy and ally is far more elusive. And it only gets more
complicated. Steaming toward his target, Fuller and his crew begin to
suspect that the spy they have been sent to retrieve may in fact be a
subterfuge, a ploy intended to lure the Allies' most dangerous weapon
into enemy hands. With the clock ticking down to an invasion that
could alter the course of the war, Fuller suspects that his new
"friend" could even be a double agent, intent on using Challenger as
a weapon against his own allies, destroying the fragile ties binding
nations in war. Fuller is accustomed to the codes of the Silent
Service, where loyalty is taken for granted, orders are followed
without question, and battles are as precise as a torpedo's firing
solution. But now he must adapt to a world where betrayers become the
new patriots and lies are the instruments of destruction. With the
lives of his crew and the fate of his country hanging in the balance,
he will have to risk everything on the word of a man who has, for the
last two years, served Fuller's most bitter enemies.
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