Lieutenant Anthony Pacino reports aboard the “project boat” USS Vermont two years after having survived the catastrophic sinking of the Piranha. Pacino quickly learns that Vermont’s missions are all ultra-secret with the boat reporting only to the Sub Force commander, the National Security Advisor and the President: Vermont does the dirty deeds that need doing in deadly silence and obscurity.After Vermont misses the mark on an easy mission, there are questions asked about her abili...

In the aftermath of a vicious sea battle with the Chinese fleet that ends in a nuclear blast, the presidential project submarine Silversides is dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission against the resurrected submarine Panther, recently converted by the Iranians to fire hypersonic electrical grid-killer missiles at the U.S. East Coast.Anthony Pacino, the Silversides’ chief engineer, is forced to abandon his mourning the loss of the love of his life and driven to...

The Kaliningrad is the ultimate Russian Republic submarine, now prowling beneath the Arctic ice under the command of the brilliant and dangerous Admiral Alexi Novskoyy.Sent to stop him is the U.S. Navy attack submarine USS Devilfish, commanded by Michael Pacino.His orders are to destroy the Russian submarine.His motivation is far more personal.Novskoyy killed his father.Now, beneath the polar ice......the ultimate undersea du...

In the aftermath of a vicious sea battle with the Chinese fleet that ends in a nuclear blast, the presidential project submarine Silversides is dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission against the resurrected submarine Panther, recently converted by the Iranians to fire hypersonic electrical grid-killer missiles at the U.S. East Coast.Anthony Pacino, the Silversides' chief engineer, is forced to abandon his mourning the loss of the love of his life and driven to fight to the deat...

There is only one way to reunite a country that has been split by two bloody civil wars in thirty years, one of them nuclear: savage their external enemies and leave them so weak they cannot interfere with the union until stability is achieved. The newly reconstituted China – now the Federated States of the New Middle Kingdom – has a strike plan that will leave both the Russians and Americans bleeding and desperate to survive.For there to be any hope of American and Russian vengean...

There is only one way to reunite a country that has been split by two bloody civil wars in thirty years, one of them nuclear: savage their external enemies and leave them so weak they cannot interfere with the union until stability is achieved. The newly reconstituted China now the Federated States of the New Middle Kingdom has a strike plan that will leave both the Russians and Americans bleeding and desperate to survive.For there to be any hope of American and Russian vengeance, ...

One ship could revolutionize submarine warfare as we know it: the USS Snarc. A robotic combat sub carrying no crew, the Snarc has proven unbeatable in sea trials. And now it has fallen into the hands of an unseen enemy.The Snarc’s first casualty: the nuclear sub carrying the son of former admiral Michael Pacino. The only man who can match wits with the Snarc, Pacino reenters the game in a high-tech underwater battle unlike any that’s been fought before, one that could engulf the wo...

The oily and brackish waters of the Russian Northern Fleet submarine base part for the passage of the colossal special purpose Omega II-class submarine Belgorod, on a mission to hold the United States hostage. This gigantic submarine is armed with three Poseidon unmanned submersibles, each with a 10-megaton warhead. Her goal: placing them offshore in U.S. ports in a nuclear-blackmail chess move.In response, the United States dispatches the newest special operations attack submarine...

The Kaliningrad is the ultimate Russian Republic submarine, now prowling beneath the Arctic ice under the command of the brilliant and dangerous Admiral Alexi Novskoyy.Sent to stop him is the U.S. Navy attack submarine USS Devilfish, commanded by Michael Pacino.His orders are to destroy the Russian submarine.His motivation is far more personal.Novskoyy killed his father.Now, beneath the polar ice......the ultimate undersea du...

A volatile new state calling itself Greater Manchuria emerges out of the political and military strife of Asia. Thanks to the connections of its brash leader, it boasts an atomic arsenal. Japan, threatened by its proximity to nuclear disaster, shocks the world by launching a sophisticated preemptive strike against its new neighbor.Worldwide outrage at this aggression provokes the U.N. to blockade the trade-dependent nation. But Japan is ready—its sub fleet is armed to the teeth and...

Lieutenant Anthony Pacino reports aboard the "project boat" USS Vermont two years after having survived the catastrophic sinking of the Piranha. Pacino quickly learns that Vermont's missions are all ultra-secret with the boat reporting only to the Sub Force commander, the National Security Advisor and the President: Vermont does the dirty deeds that need doing in deadly silence and obscurity.After Vermont misses the mark on an easy mission, there are questions asked about her abili...

ONE OF OUR SUBS WAS MISSINGThe nightmare fear of the U.S. had come true. One of our finest submarines, the U.S.S. Tampa, on a top-secret spying mission, had fallen into Chinese Communist hands. The Communists, fighting for survival in a savage civil war, now held not only the sub, the crew, and the gutsy Commander Sean Murphy hostage, but U.S. power and prestige as well.America had one last desperate card to play. The most advanced submarine in the world, the still untried ...