Golden Corner Base Library

Arctic Drift

Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler

Penguin Group (2008)

Summary:
As with all Clive Cussler’s dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan “amazes, informs and entertains”
(Publishers Weekly), “the action zipping along until a final powerhouse showdown” (Entertainment Weekly). “What’s not to
like?” proclaimed the Los Angeles Times—and hundreds of thousands of readers agreed.In his new novel, however—the
twentieth Dirk Pitt adventure— Cussler may have topped even himself.A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global
warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the
United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and
his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there’s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they
have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery
mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed
mission, captain and crew perished to a man—and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren’t careful, the very same fate
may await them.Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a
tour de force— further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 515
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399155291
Reading Status: Unread
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Battle at Sea

3,000 Years of Naval Warfare
R. G. Grant

DK Pub. (2008)

Summary:
Provides a visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare. From the clash of galleys in ancient Greece to deadly
encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, Battle at Sea helps readers explore every aspect of
the story of naval warfare on, under and above the sea. It visits every major naval conflict in time through detailed vital
statistics of the combatants and outcomes; examines the changing face of life aboard a vessel, from punishment and
discipline to food and recreation; and takes a look at crews and their roles through the ages exploring hierarchies and
organisation. Plus, it also offers a virtual tours of key vessels, weapons and technology that bring naval warfare to life.
Packed with photographs, maps, 3D battle plans and eyewitness accounts, this is the ultimate guide to the evolution of
naval conflict.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 360
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780756639730
Reading Status: Unread
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Behind Enemy Lines

The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden

Harmony Books (2002)

Summary:
Marthe Cohn was living in Nazi-occupied France when she was approached about posing as a German nurse who was
searching for her soldier boyfriend among the Nazi forces. With this remarkable memoir, her story finally comes to light.
"Behind Enemy Lines" is a tale of steel nerves and selfless bravery. It reads like gripping fiction, but every word is true.
Photos.
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages: 282
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780609610541
Reading Status: Unread
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Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies

The real West

David Fisher

Macmillan

Genre: History
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781427265722
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Blind Man's Bluff

The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage
Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew

PublicAffairs (October 19, 1998)

Summary:

No Espionage Missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, after six years of
research, journalist Sherry Sontag and reporter Christopher Drew finally reveal the exciting, epic story of adventure,
ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea. Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines
wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. Sontag and Drew
unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a
submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between
the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 352
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781891620089
Reading Status: Unread
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Clive Cussler CD Collection

Golden Buddha and Sacred Stone (Oregon Files)
Clive Cussler

Brilliance Audio on CD (April 29, 2006)

Genre: Action & Adventure
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781423311768
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Dark Waters

An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
Lee Vyborny and Don Davis

New American Library (February 23, 2004)

Summary:
It was impossibly expensive, extraordinarily dangerous, and as a secret weapon, completely unarmed. For the American
military, the state-of-the-art submersible, christened NR-1, would be the most closely guarded-and revolutionary-secret of
the Cold War. The pet project of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy, the 400-ton submarine with a
miniature nuclear reactor was designed to dive deeper than any other submarine. But such depths also meant the crew
would be cut off from all possible rescue should something go wrong. Now, the full story of the NR-1 is told for the first time
through eyewitness accounts by the original crew-including co-author Lee Vyborny-who dared go where no men had gone
before.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 256
Language: English
ISBN: 9780451211613
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: March 16, 2022

Day of wrath

Larry Bond

Warner Books (1998)

Summary:
Prince Ibrahim al Saud is amember of the Saudi royal family and a brilliant international businessman with a personal
fortune worth billions of dollars. He is also the world's most dangerous terrorist, having purchased nuclear weapons from
Russia's corrupt military.Only two people stand in his way: U.S. Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen
Gray.Following a trail that leads from the former Soviet Union, across Europe, and finally to America, the two find
themselves hunted by the very people they're trying to protect...and time is running out.
Genre: Billionaires
Number of Pages: 481
Format: Book
ISBN: 9780446516778
Reading Status: Unread
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Debt of Honor

Tom Clancy

G.P. Putnam's Sons (1994)

Summary:
Every novel by Tom Clancy has been "a jaw-tightener and a nail-biter of the first order," as the San Diego Union described
Without Remorse. But Debt of Honor surpasses them all, with Jack Ryan facing his greatest challenge - against a peril that
may become all too real.In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war. . . .The end of history. The new world order.
Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet - and only the nature of the threat is new.On the
Pacific island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his new-bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian
Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of highly unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major
stock-clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customized computer program on-line for the first time, and smiles at his
own private joke. Three seemingly unrelated incidents, but all just the first links in a chain of events that will stun the
world.Called out of retirement to serve as the new President's National Security Advisor, Jack Ryan quickly realizes that the
problems of peace are fully as complex as those of war. Enemies have become friends, friends enemies, and even the form
of conflict has changed. What he cannot realize, however, is just how close the next conflict is. And when one of those new
enemies readies a strike not only at America's territory, but at the heart of her economy, it is Ryan, with the help of CIA
officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, who must prepare an untested President to meet the challenge, if Ryan can only
figure out how. For there is a debt of honor to be paid - and the price will be terrifyingly high. . . .
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 766
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399139543
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: February 27, 2022

Duel Between the First Ironclads

William C. Davis

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (May 9, 2012)

Summary:
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton
Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to
change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who
lived through the epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis
documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The result is a full-scale history that is
as exciting as a novel. Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship, Davis portrays come of the men involved
in the building and operation of America's first ironclads-John Ericsson, supreme egoist and engineering genius who
designed the Monitor; John Brooke, designer of the Virginia; John Worden, the well-loved captain of the Monitor; Captain
Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions make
this history as much a story of men as of ships and war.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 201
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307817501
Reading Status: Unread
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First SEALs

The Untold Story of the Forging of America S Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell

Da Capo Press (October 28, 2014)

Summary:
"The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence
officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California
dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it
developed an array of James Bond-like new equipment, including the recently invented underwater breathing apparatus,
limpet mines, silent electric motors, and a collapsible eight-foot submarine. Finally deployed in 1944, the unit conducted
some of the most daring, behind-enemy-lines operations of the war in Italy, where they linked up with fearsome Italian
commandos. In one of its greatest coups, they captured the plans--and the architect--of Germany's famed Gothic Line,
resulting in the Eighth Army's partial breakthrough. Filled with unforgettable characters, including the unit's charismatic
leader, a Hollywood star, and a gritty New York City gas station owner, The First SEALs cinematically narrates one of the
greatest untold stories of World War II and links their storied past to today's gloried US Navy SEALs"--
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 290
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780306821721
Reading Status: Unread
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Hostile Waters

Peter A. Huchthausen, Peter Huchthuasen, Igor Kurdin, R. Alan White

Macmillan (August 15, 1998)

Summary:
As the Cold War drew to a close, a Soviet submarine armed with fifteen nuclear missiles suffered a crippling accident,
coming within moments of an apocalyptic meltdown that could have devastated the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Although our own government-all the way up to the White House-was fully aware of the potential for disaster, they buried the
facts, deciding to protect the American public from the truth...but not from the danger.Now, for the first time, in the words of
the survivors, the whole story is told-a minute-by-minute, heartbeat-by-heartbeat account of the underwater terror and top-
secret, top-level intrigue. From the military command centers of both the U.S. and Soviet Union to the bridge of the stricken
sub itself, you'll share in a riveting true chronicle of courage, deception, and senseless death.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 336
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312966126
Reading Status: Unread
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Hour Game

David Baldacci

Grand Central Publishing (September 1, 2005)

Summary:
He's copying famous serial killers. And the HOUR GAME has just begun...A woman is found murdered in the woods. It
seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most
infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next.Two ex-Secret Service agents,
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family.
Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and
Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For
the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.
Genre: Fiction

Number of Pages: 624

Format: Book

Language: English

ISBN: 9780446616492

Reading Status: Unread

Date Added: April 24, 2021

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Iron Coffins

A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II
Herbert A. Werner

Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969)

Summary:
"Because I was one of the few U-boat commanders who fought through most of the war and who managed to survive, I felt it
was my duty to my fallen comrades to set the record straight. Very much to the point, duty was the first and last word in the
lexicon of the U-boat men; and, remarks to the contrary notwithstanding, we did our duty with a correct gallantry
unsurpassed in any branch of service on either side. We were soldiers and patriots, no more and no less, and in our
dedication to our lost cause we died in appalling numbers. But the great tragedy of the U-boat Force was not merely that so
many good men perished; it was also that so many of our lives were squandered on inadequate equipment and by the
unconscionable policies of U-boat Headquarters". - page[xiii].
Genre: Personal narratives, German
Number of Pages: 329
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780030813221
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: September 18, 2021

John Paul Jones

A Sailor's Biography
Samuel Eliot Morison

Naval Institute Press (1999)

Summary:
Written by the renowned naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, this Pulitzer prize-winning book is widely recognized as the
only authoritative, modern biography of the naval officer frequently referred to as the father of the U.S. Navy. It vividly
portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade, to
his exploits in the newly independent American navy, to his appointment as an admiral in the Russian navy and command of
a squadron in the Black Sea. With compelling detail and remarkable insight, the dramatic narrative captures Jones's tenacity
and fierce dedication and loyalty to his men and country, despite ill treatment and only begrudged recognition from his
superiors. Jones's incredible victories at sea form an important part of the book. Morison's description of the battle between
Jones's Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis is considered one of the most vivid accounts of a naval battle in the English
language. Book jacket.
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages: 534
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781557504104
Reading Status: Unread
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Killing the Rising Sun

How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

Macmillan (September 13, 2016)

Summary:
The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944.
World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go
to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form
of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the
embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion
of Japan.Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing
to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC, FDR dies in office and Harry Truman ascends to the
presidency, only to face the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. And in Tokyo, Emperor
Hirohito, who is considered a deity by his subjects, refuses to surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Told in
the same page-turning style of Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan, this epic
saga details the final moments of World War II like never before.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 323
Language: English
ISBN: 9781627790628
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: March 16, 2022

Kilo option

Sean Flannery

Forge (1996)

Genre: Terrorism
Number of Pages: 383
Format: Book
ISBN: 9780312852566
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Locked on

Tom Clancy

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2011)

Summary:
Tom Clancy's All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team
are facing their greatest challenge ever. Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He's running for President of the
United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn't anticipate
the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan's closest comrades, John Clark. Now,
Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy
organization tasked to bring him in, all while trying to find who is behind this. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Jr., Ding Chavez,
Dominick Caruso and other members of the Campus-the top secret off-the-books intelligence agency founded by Jack Ryan
during his first term in the White House-deal with a question of their own: Why is a Pakistani military officer meeting with
Dagestani terrorists? The answer will ultimately lead to a desperate struggle, with nothing short of the fate of the world at
stake.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 853
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399157318
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Lost Subs

Spencer Dunmore and Ken Marschall

Da Capo Press (September 25, 2002)

Summary:
As millions have come to know from such immensely popular books and movies as The Hunt for Red October and U-571,
the world of submarines is secretive and dangerous. On the ocean floor lie over a century and a half of subs, lost both in war
and in peace. Now, for the first time, the individual stories of these sunken ships are woven together to create an amazing
history of underwater warfare and exploration-and the price that hundreds of subs and thousands of sailors have paid. In
gripping text and powerful images (including state-of-the-art contemporary underwater photographs), Lost Subs chronicles
the fate of some of the most famous subs in naval history-from the sinking of the Confederate Army's sub Hunley to the
recent loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. With a wealth of archival material, modern and period photographs,
and stunning paintings by renowned Titanic artist Ken Marschall, this definitive illustrated history brings to life the museum of
submarines resting in their underwater graves and the submariners on "eternal patrol." And it vividly re-creates the missions
to explore and raise many famous sunken subs, including the Hunley and the Kursk-missions sometimes as fraught with
peril as any wartime duty. Filled with mystery, drama, and daring, and as current as today's headlines, Lost Subs is a
powerful, true thriller.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 176
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780306811401

Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 14, 2021

Naval miscellany.

Angus Konstam

Random House (2011)

Genre: History, Military
Format: Book
ISBN: 9781435132658
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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October Fury

Peter A. Huchthausen, Alexander Hoyt

Wiley (August 12, 2002)

Summary:
"Huchthausen knows the hidden history of the Cuban missile crisis . . . October Fury contains startling revelations."-- TOM
CLANCYDrama on the high seas as the world holds its breathIt was the most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the
Cold War era. In October 1962, President Kennedy risked inciting a nuclear war to prevent the Soviet Union from
establishing missile bases in Cuba. The risk, however, was far greater than Kennedy realized.October Fury uncovers
startling new information about the Cuban missile crisis and the potentially calamitous confrontation between U.S. Navy
destroyers and Soviet submarines in the Atlantic. Peter Huchthausen, who served as a junior ensign aboard one of the
destroyers, reveals that a single shot fired by any U.S. warship could have led to an immediate nuclear response from the
Soviet submarines.This riveting account re-creates those desperate days of confrontation from both the American and
Russian points of view and discloses detailed information about Soviet operational plans and the secret orders given to
submarine commanders. It provides an engrossing, behind-the-scenes look at the technical and tactical functions of two
great navies along with stunning portraits of the officers and sailors on both sides who were determined to do their duty even
in the most extreme circumstances.As absorbing and detailed as a Tom Clancy novel, this real-life suspense thriller is
destined to become a classic of naval literature.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 281
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780471415343
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Plague Ship

A Novel of the Oregon Files
Clive Cussler, Jack B. Du Brul

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2008)

Summary:
"For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside
but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-
legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any
government agency that can afford it - and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet." "The crew
has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea.
Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship.
Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as
intricate - and as perilous - as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human
race ... plans he may already be too late to stop."--BOOK JACKET.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 515
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399154973
Reading Status: Unread
Loaned To: Walker T Bousman
Date Loaned: March 16, 2022
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots

Frank Hood Charles

Blurb, Incorporated (January 4, 2018)

Summary:
The workings of an American nuclear submarine have always been cloaked with mystery, in part because the military
missions in which these vessels routinely participate are highly classified. Still, there is much that the public does not know
about the day-to-day routine of life aboard a nuclear-powered submarine. In this book, brothers Frank Hood and Charles
Hood team up to paint an accurate portrait of what it was really like to serve aboard a submarine during the height of the
Cold War between 1969 and 1972. Told from Frank's perspective, the work traces his journey from initial Navy training in
college, through commissioning, and onto intense preparation for submarine duty at several training sites across the United
States. The story culminates with a richly detailed account of Frank's nearly three years of service as a junior officer aboard
the USS Seahorse, one of the Sturgeon-class "fast attacks". Readers who have wondered about how such a modern
submarine actually operated, how the crew worked together to navigate the vessel, avoid dangers, and gather information,
and how they dealt with the tremendous pressure of life under the sea will enjoy Frank's tremendous recall of his days
aboard the Seahorse. Often funny, other times serious, and occasionally wistful, this volume is jammed with enlightening
stories that provide an entertaining window into the "Silent Service".
Genre: History, Military
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781389052347

Reading Status: Unread
Loaned To: Lowell Rust
Date Loaned: October 20, 2021
Date Added: June 16, 2021

Rainbow Six

Read By David Dukes
Tom Clancy

Random House

Genre: Action & Adventure
Format: Audiobook
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Revenge of Innocents (Carolyn Sullivan)

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged (April 24, 2007)

Genre: Fiction
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781423307037
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Seal of Honor

Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN
Gary Williams

Naval Institute Press (2011)

Summary:

Lt.Michael Patrick Murphy, a Navy SEAL, earned the Medal of Honor on 28 June 2005 for his bravery during a fierce fight
with the Taliban in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The first to receive the nation's highest military honor for
service in Afghanistan, Lt. Murphy was also the first naval officer to earn the medal since the Vietnam War, and the first
SEAL to be honored posthumously. A young man of great character, he is the subject of Naval Special Warfare courses on
character and leadership, and an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, naval base, school, post office, ball park,
and hospital emergency room have been named in his honor. A bestselling book by the sole survivor of Operation Red
Wings, Marcus Luttrell, has helped make Lt. Murphy's SEAL team's fateful encounter with the Taliban one of the Afghan
war's best known engagements. Published on the 5th anniversary of the engagement, SEAL of Honor also tells the story of
that fateful battle, but it does so from a very different perspective being focused on the life of Lt. Murphy. This biography
uses his heroic action during this deadly firefight in Afghanistan, as a window on his character and attempts to answer why
Lt. Murphy readily sacrificed his life for his comrades. SEAL of Honor is the story of a young man, who was noted by his
peers for his compassion and for his leadership being guided by an extraordinary sense of duty, responsibility, and moral
clarity. In tracing Lt. Murphy's journey from a seemingly ordinary life on New York's Long Island, to that remote mountainside
a half a world away, SEAL of Honor will help readers understand how he came to demonstrate the extraordinary heroism
and selfless leadership that earned him the nation's highest military honor. Moreover, the book brings the Afghan war back
to the home front, focusing on Lt. Murphy's tight knit family and the devastating effect of his death upon them as they
watched the story of Operation Red Wings unfold in the news. The book attempts to answer why Lt. Murphy's service to his
country and his comrades was a calling faithfully answered, a duty justly upheld, and a life, while all too short, well lived.
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages: 218
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781591149651
Reading Status: Unread
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Spartan Gold

Clive Cussler

Berkley Books (September 1, 2009)

Summary:
In this adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo
must out-pace a self-made millionaire in pursuit of an incredible fortune...Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the
ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of history. In 1800, while crossing
the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to
transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles
disappeared—and the treasure was lost again. Until now. Treasure-hunting husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo
are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U-boat.
Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon’s famous “Lost Cellar,” and fascinated, they set out to find the rest of the
collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it. That man is
Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his, no matter what.
Genre: FICTION / Thrillers
Number of Pages: 375
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399156427
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Stand and be Counted

A Washington Insider Tells how to Preserve America's Liberties for You and
Your Children
Robert P. Dugan

Multnomah Books (1995)

Summary:
This book should be required reading for every Christian...The truth that Bob Dugan shares could influence a change in
America if enough people would put truth into action.---Beverly LaHaye, Concerned Women for America
Genre: Religion
Number of Pages: 280
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780880707831
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Texas Ranger

James Patterson

Genre: Action & Adventure
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781549119965
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

The Ashes of Waco

An Investigation
Dick J. Reavis

Simon & Schuster (1995)

Summary:

"This is the story the daily press didn't give us, the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas,
examined from both sides - the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh
and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis points out that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and
even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened - about who
fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel -
and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people." "Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's
movement (which dates back to 1935, long before Koresh was born), on published accounts, on trial transcripts, on esoteric
religious tracts and audiotapes that tell us who Koresh was and why people followed him, and most of all on secret
documents that the government has not released to the public yet, Reavis has uncovered the real story from beginning to
end, including the trial that followed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All
Rights Reserved
Genre: Political Science
Number of Pages: 320
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780684811321
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The Chase

Clive Cussler

Penguin (2007)

Summary:
For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he
does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam
locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years
before. But it is not the engine or its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next
. . . 1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank
robberies by a single man who cold- bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by
the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find-a tall, lean, no-nonsense
detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast. But Bell has never had a challenge like this
one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is
quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold
the key to the bandit's identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin air,
but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase
back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Isaac Bell's skills not merely to prevail . . . but to
survive. Filled with intricate plotting, dazzling signature set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, this is the work
of a master writing at the height of his powers.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 404
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399154386
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The CSS H.L. Hunley

Confederate Submarine
R. Thomas Campbell

Burd Street Press (2000)

Summary:
The subject of a July 1999 made-for-television movie, the CSS H.L. Hunley was the world's first successful submarine.
Campbell lauds the courage of the Confederate Navy crews of this prototype craft which led the way to the huge nuclear-
powered, missile-firing subs of today.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 173
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781572491755
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: September 18, 2021

The Eagle and the Raven

James Albert Michener

State House Press (1990)

Summary:
On book: "A fictional account of the lives of Sam Houston and Santa Anna, the book moves relentlessly to the adversaries'
historic encounter at the battle of San Jacinto, which resulted, eventually, in the U.S. annexation of Texas."
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 214
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780938349570
Reading Status: Unread
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The Echelon Vendetta

David Stone

Penguin Audio (February 15, 2007)

Genre: Intelligence officers
Number of Pages: 15

Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9780143141907
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

The gray ghost

Clive Cussler

Date Published: 2018
Genre: FICTION / Thrillers
Number of Pages: 10
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9780525592433
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

The hard way

A Jack Reacher novel
Lee Child

Brilliance Audio (2006)

Genre: Fiction
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781455844142
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

The Hunley

Submarines, Sacrifice, and Success in the Civil War
Mark K. Ragan

Narwhal Press (August 1, 1999)

Genre: History
Number of Pages: 256
Format: Book
ISBN: 9781886391437
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021

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The Navigator

A Novel from the NUMA Files
Clive Cussler

Penguin (2007)

Summary:
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigatorwas stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men
who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their
second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the
bottom of a watery grave. What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA
team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King
Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top secret scientific project
that could change the world forever. And that's before the surprises really begin . . . Rich with all the hair-raising action and
endless invention that have become Cussler's hallmarks, The Navigatoris Clive's best yet.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 437
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399154195
Reading Status: Unread
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The Night Stalkers

Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment

Michael J. Durant, Robert L. Johnson (Lt. Col.), and Steven Hartov

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2006)

Summary:
From the authors of the bestselling In the Company of Heroes come the thrilling, never-before-heard stories of the Army's
elite aviation unit, the most daring and professional helicopter crews in the world. In his first book, Michael Durant told his
harrowing tale of being shot down in his Blackhawk over Mogadishu and held captive by a Somali warlord. It was a
remarkable account, particularly because Special Operations pilots are notoriously reticent-they don't talk about their
missions, at least not to anyone outside their small community. But now, with the publication of The Night Stalkers, Durant
and Steven Hartov shed a fascinating light on these mysterious super commandos and take readers into a world they have
only imagined. From Iran to Grenada to Iraq, the 160th SOAR (A) has been at the point of the spear and in the thick of
combat, delivering and supporting Delta operators, Rangers, and SEAL teams to any target, at any point on the globe, in all
weather-night or day. Simply put, they are the best of the best, and here for the first time are their hair-raising true stories of
battle, capture, victory, and loss.
Genre: History

Number of Pages: 335

Language: English

ISBN: 9780399153921

Reading Status: Unread

Date Added: February 27, 2022

The Price Of Power

A Novel
James W. Huston

Harper Collins (June 21, 2011)

Summary:
An admiral is on trial for having defied the President while carrying out the orders of a rebellious Congress; a President is on
trial for having failed to act when a crisis threatened his country. Congressional aide Jim Dillon discovered a little- known
provision in the U.S. Constitution, and it plunged the federal government into chaos. Now he struggles to gain control over
the extraordinary events his actions precipitated, volunteering for the defence team at the court martial of Admiral Ray
Billings, who disregarded a presidential order by leading an assault on foreign terrorists. Meanwhile, in the South Pacific, a
fanatic plans to exploit the weaknesses of an American government in upheaval by brutally shedding American blood and
taking innocent citizens hostage. But nothing will prevent a great nation from doing what is right, no matter what the price,
not when the honour and the future of America is at stake.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 528
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062105790
Reading Status: Unread
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The Red Circle

My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's
Deadliest Marksmen
Brandon Webb, John David Mann

Macmillan (April 10, 2012)

Summary:
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen BEFORE HE
COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.Brandon Webb's experiences in
the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to
his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings
of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist.Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead
instructor for the shadowy "sniper cell" and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of
America's finest and deadliest warriors-including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle-that makes his story so compelling. Luttrell
credits Webb's training with his own survival during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in Afghanistan. Kyle went on to
become the U.S. military's top marksman, with more than 150 confirmed kills.From a candid chronicle of his student days,
going through the sniper course himself, to his hair-raising close calls with Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the northern
Afghanistan wilderness, to his vivid account of designing new sniper standards and training some of the most accomplished
snipers of the twenty-first century, Webb provides a rare look at the making of the Special Operations warriors who are at
the forefront of today's military.Explosive, revealing, and intelligent, The Red Circle provides a uniquely personal glimpse
into one of the most challenging and secretive military training courses in the world.
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages: 380
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312604226

Reading Status: Unread
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The Silent Service in World War II

The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who
Lived It
Michael Green (Ed)

Casemate (December 7, 2012)

Summary:
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submarines. However,
this fleet was not nearly as impressive as the number suggests. It was mostly a collection of aging boats from the late teens
and early twenties, with only a few of the newer, more modern Gato-class boats. Fortunately, with the war in Europe was
already two years old and friction with Japan ever-increasing, help from what would become known as the Silent Service in
the Pacific was on the way: there were 73 of the new fleet submarines under construction. The Silent Service in World War II
tells the story of AmericaÕs intrepid underwater warriors in the words of the men who lived the war in the Pacific against
Japan. The enemy had already begun to deploy advanced boats, but the U.S. was soon able to match them. By 1943 the
new Gato-class boats were making a difference, carrying the war not just to the Japanese Imperial Navy, but to the vital
merchant fleet that carried the vast array of materiel needed to keep the land of the Rising Sun afloat. As the war
progressed, American success in the Solomons, starting with Guadalcanal, began to constrict the Japanese sea lanes, and
operating singly or in wolfpacks they were able to press their attacks on convoys operating beyond the range of our
airpower, making daring forays even into the home waters of Japan itself in the quest for ever more elusive targets. Also
taking on Japanese warships, as well as rescuing downed airmen (such as the grateful first President Bush), U.S.
submarines made an enormous contribution to our war against Japan. This book takes you through the war as you learn
what it was like to serve on submarines in combat, the exhilaration of a successful attack, and the terror of being depth-
charged. And aside from enemy action, the sea itself could prove to be an extremely hostile environment as many of these
stories attest. From early war patrols in obsolescent, unreliable S-boats to new, modern fleet submarines roving the Pacific,
the forty-six stories in this anthology give you a full understanding of what it was like to be a U.S. Navy submariner in
combat.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 264
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781612001258
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The Silent War

The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea
John P. Craven

Simon & Schuster (2001)

Summary:

The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined
without the firing of a shot. Without the shield of a strong, silent deterrent or the intellectual sword of espionage beneath the
sea, that war could not have been won. John P. Craven was a key figure in the Cold War beneath the sea. As chief scientist
of the Navy's Special Projects Office, which supervised the Polaris missile system, then later as head of the Deep
Submergence Systems Project (DSSP) and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle program (DSRV), both of which
engaged in a variety of clandestine undersea projects, he was intimately involved with planning and executing America's
submarine-based nuclear deterrence and submarine-based espionage activities during the height of the Cold War. Craven
was considered so important by the Soviets that they assigned a full-time KGB agent to spy on him. Some of Craven's
highly classified activities have been mentioned in such books as "Blind Man's Bluff," but now he gives us his own insights
into the deadly cat-and-mouse game that U.S. and Soviet forces played deep in the world's oceans. Craven tells riveting
stories about the most treacherous years of the Cold War. In 1956 "Nautilus," the world's first nuclear-powered submarine
and the backbone of the Polaris ballistic missile system, was only days or even hours from sinking due to structural damage
of unknown origin. Craven led a team of experts to diagnose the structural flaw that could have sent the sub to the bottom of
the ocean, taking the Navy's missile program with it. Craven offers insight into the rivalry between the advocates of
deterrence (withwhom he sided) and those military men and scientists, such as Edward Teller, who believed that the United
States had to prepare to fight and win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. He describes the argument that raged in the
Navy over the reasons for the tragic loss of the submarine "Thresher," and tells the astonishing story of the hunt for the
rogue Soviet sub that became the model for "The Hunt for Red October" -- including the amazing discovery the Navy made
when it eventually found the sunken sub. Craven takes readers inside the highly secret DSSP and DSRV programs, both of
which offered crucial cover for sophisticated intelligence operations. Both programs performed important salvage operations
in addition to their secret espionage activities, notably the recovery of a nuclear bomb off Palomares, Spain. He describes
how the Navy's success at deep-sea recovery operations led to the takeover of the entire program by the CIA during the
Nixon administration. A compelling tale of intrigue, both within our own government and between the U.S. and Soviet navies,
"The Silent War" is an enthralling insider's account of how the submarine service kept the peace during the dangerous days
of the Cold War.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 304
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780684872131
Reading Status: Unread
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The Ten Thousand-Day War At Sea, The U.S. Navy In
Vietnam, 1950-1975, 2020

None

Date Published: 2021
Language: English
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: February 27, 2022

The Ten Thousand-Day War At Sea, The U.S. Navy In
Vietnam, 1950-1975, 2020

Hampton Roads

Date Published: 2021
Language: English
Reading Status: Unread
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The Ten Thousand-Day War At Sea, The U.S. Navy In
Vietnam, 1950-1975, 2020

Hampton Roads

Date Published: 2021
Language: English
Reading Status: Unread
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The Trident Deception

Rick Campbell

Macmillan (March 11, 2014)

Summary:
"The best submarine novel since Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October." -Booklist (starred review)The USS Kentucky-a
Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads-is about to go on a routine patrol. Not
long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut
off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the
Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch orders haven't actually come from the U.S. government.Rogue elements
within the Mossad have learned that Iran has developed its first nuclear weapon and, in ten days, will detonate it-and the
target is Israel. The suspected weapon complex is too far underground for conventional weapons to harm it, and the only
choice is a pre-emptive nuclear strike. With limited time, this rogue group initiates a long-planned operation called the
Trident Deception. They'll transmit false orders and use a U.S. nuclear submarine to launch the attack.In this thriller from
Rick Campbell, with only 8 days before the Kentucky is in launch range and with the submarine cut off from any outside
communication, one senior officer, the father of one of the officers aboard the submarine, must assemble and lead a team of
attack submarines to find, intercept and neutralize the Kentucky before it can unknowingly unleash a devastating nuclear
attack.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 387
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9781250039019
Reading Status: Unread
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The Wrecker

Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

G.P. Putnam's Sons (2009)

Summary:
In "The Chase," Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who,
driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes
criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the
Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency.
Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West,
a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them
afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases,
causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A
revolutionary determined to displace the ?privileged few A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained
scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he
is far from done?that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell
doesn't stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk?it could be the future of the entire country. Filled with intricate
plotting and dazzling set pieces, "The Wrecker" is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.
Genre: Private investigators
Number of Pages: 470
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399155994
Reading Status: Unread
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To sail a darkling sea

John Ringo

Brilliance Audio

Genre: Science Fiction
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781491540268
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Treason

David Nevin

Tom Doherty Associates (October 20, 2001)

Summary:
This is a story of ambitions and dreams shattered. It is a tale of intrigue and greed, surrounding the powerful figures in
history, who are unable to see the consequences of their visions. It is the story of a young democracy.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 464
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312855123
Reading Status: Unread
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Treasure of Khan

Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler

Penguin (2006)

Summary:
Black Windcontinued Dirk Pitt's meteoric career with one of Clive Cussler's most audacious, and well-received, novels yet:
"Black Windmore than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger" (Kirkus Reviews). "Thriller fans will revel in this
action-packed yarn" (Publishers Weekly). But now Cussler takes an extraordinary leap, with one of his most remarkable
villains ever. Genghis Khan-the greatest conqueror of all time, who, at his peak, ruled an empire that stretched from the
Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk
Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature.
When the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more
sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia, and a mysterious mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the
Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream of
restoring the conquests of his ancestors, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Khan that just might give him the wealth
and power to make that dream come true. From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot sands of the Gobi Desert, Dirk Pitt and
Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting clues to the mysterious treasure of Xanadu. But first, they must
keep the tycoon from murder-and the unleashing of a natural disaster of calamitous proportions. Filled with breathtaking
suspense and brilliant imagination, his new novel is yet further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats
Clive Cussler.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 552
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399153693
Reading Status: Unread
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Typhoon fury

a novel of the Oregon files
Clive Cussler

Date Published: 2017
Genre: Action & Adventure
Number of Pages: 12
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9780525497301
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

U.S.S. Seawolf

Patrick Robinson

HarperCollins (May 30, 2000)

Summary:
By the close of the twentieth century, China had gathered secret information concerning the United States' underwater
surveillance and guided-missile technology. How much the sensitive knowledge would impact China's military capabilities
was unknown.Until 2005. The technology is in production in China's new breed of intercontinental ballistic missiles,
submarine sonars, and satellite deep-sea observation systems. The Pentagon and the White House are alarmed. The
dragon has stirred.At the forefront of the new technology is China's new ICBM submarine, Xia III, which may have the
capacity to hurl a nuclear warhead clear across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. Beijing has
made such threats before, but this time, with the new American technology, they cannot be so easily dismissed.And Admiral
Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, isn't going to sit back and wait for it to happen. He dispatches the
most lethal hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters
of the China Sea.The mission bristles with peril, as the Americans prowl through China's territorial waters, listening,
photographing, led by the brilliant stealth and cunning of Captain Judd Crocker. Under his steady hand they are able to
elude the People's Liberation Navy until, without warning, the most shocking accident occurs due south of Canton. Seawolf
is suddenly, catastrophically at the mercy of the Chinese, her crew captive, the $1 billion ship in enemy hands. And if the
true identity of Seowolf's executive officer becomes known, the repercussions will cause the biggest confrontation between
Beijing and Washington in more than forty years.Left with few options, Admiral Morgan, at the risk of starting World War III,
orders SPECWARCOM to send in the Navy SEALs to rescue the Americans at all costs. It is the biggest Special Forces
assault force assembled since the Vietnam War. Their orders as they embark on their journey to a remote Chinese island
are brutally straightforward: failure is not an option. Success is paramount for the Pentagon, the Navy, the President, and
the United States. Defeat, or even discovery, is unthinkable.Featuring an ensemble cast that stretches from the very heart of
the Chinese High Command to the control rooms of U.S. submarines and the screaming flight decks of giant U.S. aircraft
carriers, U.S.S. Seawolf is epic in its sweep, meticulous in its authenticity, and breathtaking in its pacing. It is a terrifying and
thrilling novel for our times.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 448
Language: English
ISBN: 9780060196301
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: February 27, 2022

Under Pressure

The Final Voyage of Submarine S-5
Alvin Joseph Hill

Free Press (2002)

Summary:
Hanging on display in the United States Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., is a battered and scratched steel plate, two feet in
diameter, edged with more than one hundred little semicircles. For more than eighty years, people have wondered how it
came to be there and at the story it could tell. Under Pressure: The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five is that story. On
Monday, August 30, 1920, the S-Five, the newest member of the U.S. Navy's fleet of submarines, departs Boston on her
first cruise -- to Baltimore for a recruiting appearance at the end of the week. Two days later, as part of a routine test of the
submarine's ability to crash dive, her crew's failure to close a faulty valve sends seventy-five tons of seawater blasting in.
Before the valve can be jury-rigged shut, the S-Five sits precariously on the ocean floor under 180 feet of water. Her
electrical system is shut down, her radio too weak to transmit, and one drive motor is inoperable -- and, because of a last-
minute course change, the sub has gone down in a part of the Atlantic deliberately selected because it is well outside any
regularly trafficked sea lanes. Rescue by a passing ship is virtually impossible. No one expects them in Baltimore for
another two days. And forty hours worth of air is all they have left. The S-Fives are on their own. Her captain, Lieutenant
Commander Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke Jr., tries to pump the seawater out, but each of three pumping systems fails in
succession. The salt in the seawater combines with the sulfuric acid in the sub's batteries to create a cloud of chlorine gas.
They have little air, no water, and only the dimmest of light by which to plan their escape. By shifting the water in the sub
toward the bow torpedo room, Cooke is able to stand the 240-foot-long sub on its nose, bringing it close to vertical, and,
using trigonometry, he calculates that at least part of the boat's stern is now above sea level. In a race against time -- will the
crew die of asphyxiation before chlorine gas poisoning? -- Cooke assembles his crew into three-man teams charged with
cutting a hole out of the highest point in the sub: the telephone-booth-size tiller room. With no acetylene torch, no power
tools -- nothing but ratchet drills and hacksaws -- the crew must cut through nearly an inch of strengthened steel or die in the
attempt. Under Pressure is the story of the thirty-six-hour-long ordeal of the crew of the S-Five. It is a story of the courage,
endurance, and incredible resourcefulness of the entire forty-man crew: of Charlie Grisham, the sub's executive officer, a
"mustang" promoted to the navy's officer corps from the enlisted ranks; of Chief Electrician Ramon Otto, whose baby
daughter was born just days before the S-Five's departure; of Machinist's Mate Fred Whitehead, who at the last minute is
able to dog the all-important watertight hatches shut; of Chief of the Boat Percy Fox, who redeems himself for the failure to
close the induction valve that sank the S-Five; and of the sub's indomitable captain, Savvy Cooke, leading his crew through
sheer force of will. An incredible drama, a story of heroism and of heroes, Under Pressure is that most remarkable of books,
a true story far more dramatic than any fiction.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 239
Language: English
ISBN: 9780743236775
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: December 15, 2021

Unfit For Command

Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi

Regnery Publishing (August 15, 2004)

Summary:

"What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?" ask the authors in this heated critique of the Democratic
presidential candidate’s Vietnam–era military service and antiwar activism. O’Neill, a lawyer and swift boat veteran, and
Corsi, an expert on Vietnam antiwar movements, argue that Kerry misrepresented his wartime exploits and is therefore
incompetent to serve as commander in chief. Buttressed by interviews with Navy veterans who patrolled Vietnam’s waters,
some along with Kerry, the book claims he exaggerated minor injuries, self-inflicted others, wrote fictitious diary entries and
filed "phony" reports of his heroism under fire—all in a calculated quest to secure career-enhancing combat medals. They
also maintain that Kerry, whom they call a "moral coward," committed atrocities that alarmed his peers and superior officers
during his four-month tour of duty. Yet his activities on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War clearly raises the
authors’ hackles the most, and they present Kerry’s post-war actions as additional, damning evidence of his "total unfitness,"
claiming that his testimony against the war "caused more deaths and prolonged the war in Vietnam by undermining support
at home and contributing directly to a Vietnamese Communist victory." The battle that lies at the heart of this book is the
decades-old feud between antiwar veterans and their my-country-right-or-wrong counterparts. The authors’ conservative
take on the war is palpable: the U.S. military failed to unleash "massive, indiscriminate bombing" to force North Vietnam’s
capitulation; the conflict was a struggle against communism, not a civil war; and the dissenting soldiers undermined
homefront morale. Consequently, this overwrought and repetitive polemic seethes with a resentment that compromises the
otherwise eyebrow-raising testimonies. Further, without access to Kerry’s full military and medical records, the authors rely
heavily on 35-year-old recollections and recent Kerry biographies by Douglas Brinkley and a Boston Globe reporting team.
Those looking for a thorough, unbiased investigation into Kerry’s wartime record would do best to wait for more objective,
methodical chroniclers who have access to the relevant documents.
Genre: Political Science
Number of Pages: 224
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780895260178
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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United States Submarine Operations In WWII

Theodore Roscoe

United States Naval Institute

Genre: History, Military
Format: Book
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: September 11, 2021

United States Submarines

David Randall Hinkle, Arne C. Johnson, and Harry Harrison Caldwell

Hugh Lauter Levin (2002)

Summary:

Working in conjunction with Sonalysts, Inc. and the Naval Submarine League, Levin Associates presents the story of
America's undersea operations as it has never before been told. The Navy purchased its first submarine, Holland VI, in 1900
for 160,000 dollars. Since that time, and through many advances necessitated by the challenges of World War II and the
Cold War, the submarine has become a 300-foot-long, 30-foot-wide and tall vessel, filled with some of the world's most
sophisticated technology. More important than the machines themselves are the courageous, highly skilled, all-volunteer
personnel who serve in the Submarine Force. In each submarine, over 100 crew members work and live together for
months at a time to defend their country and protect US interests around the world. Now, a century after its founding, the
spirit and essence of the United States Submarine Force is celebrated for the first time in a definitive, magnificently
illustrated, large-format book published with the Naval Submarine League.Written by an outstanding team, including
historians, authors, and experts associated with the Navy, as well as several distinguished active and retired Submarine
officers, United States Submarines has over 350 pages of riveting and informative text and stories of the submarine
experience. Essays on submarine history and today's submariners focus not only on the subs, torpedoes, and related
technologies, but especially on the people that make it all work. The thoughtful incorporation of full-colour and vintage
photography, portraits, recruiting posters, and historically inspired paintings complements the text, while adding the
excitement that only spectacular illustrations can bring to a book. United States Submarines enables the history of America's
submariners to be cherished permanently in a handsome package that every submariner and Navy personnel will be proud
to own and -- with its unique medallion-inlaid cover -- to display.This book will be read again and again by past and present
submariners, their families and friends, and the countless others that have been inspired by the exploits of the United States
Submarine Force and the mysteries and excitement of undersea warfare.
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 352
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780883631034
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: September 18, 2021

Wake of the Wahoo

The Heroic Story of America's Most Daring WWII Submarine, USS Wahoo

Forest J. Sterling

R. A. Cline Publishing (December 30, 2011)

Summary:
This book is the first to describe in detail a community of potters working for the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, and to explore
how the role of temple servant affects the potters' understanding of their work and of themselves. As a pilgrimage centre of
national importance, supported by the patronage of successive regional dynasties and by fervent popular belief, the
Jagannatha Temple requires earthenware in great quantities for the creation and distribution of the sacred food that is an
integral feature of daily ritual and pilgrimage. Three hundred potters participate as temple servants in maintaining the
temple's ritual cycle by performing their divinely assigned task. This study, conducted in 1979-1981, observes the potters'
technical prowess, sustained by devotion, but also examines the tensions within their relationships to more powerful temple
servants and authorities. The role of the potter as temple servant is at once glorious, as demonstrated by texts and personal
interpretations of the potters' divinely-appointed service, and pathetic, as shown in the brutality of caste-based hierarchy and
cash-based exchange penetrating the modern temple's daily operations.
Genre: Naval operations
Number of Pages: 222
Language: English
ISBN: 9780966323559
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: February 27, 2022

Welcome Home, Brother

Memoirs of Vietnam War Veterans
Michel Robertson

Independently Published (December 8, 2019)

Summary:
Welcome Home, Brother is a collection of the personal memoirs of 31 veterans of the Vietnam War. Told by members of the
Navy, Marines, Air Force and Army, these accounts depict combat and day-to-day life in-country, as well as the Vietnam War
veterans' experiences as they returned home to a country divided by the war.
Number of Pages: 239
Language: English
ISBN: 9781708229665
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: February 27, 2022

Without Remorse

Tom Clancy

Putnam (1993)

Summary:
Over the course of seven novels, Tom Clancy's "genius for big, compelling plots" and his "natural narrative gift" (The New
York Times Magazine) have mesmerized tens of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent
storytellers of our time. Without Remorse, however, goes beyond anything he has ever done.Its hero is John Kelly, a man
well familiar to Clancy's readers by his code name, Mr. Clark. In The Sum of All Fears, he hunted down nuclear terrorists. In
Clear and Present Danger, he led aerial raids against drug lords. In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, he spirited away a KGB
chief's family by submarine. But nothing will ever be as deadly - or as personal - as the danger he must face in Without
Remorse.John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months
before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a
particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men
responsible, before it can happen again.At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of
prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than
anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly.Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him
for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of
enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of
people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens.Men aren't born dangerous. They grow
dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect...As Clancy takes us through the
twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate
plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.
Genre: Fiction
Number of Pages: 639
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399138256
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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Wrath of the lion

Jack Higgins

Genre: Fiction
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781511363686
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: August 21, 2021

Zero hour

Clive Cussler

G. P. Putnam's Sons (2013)

Summary:
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew must stop a vengeful scientist from tearing apart the very surface of the earth in this fast-
paced installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.It is called zero-point energy—contained in all matter, it would
become an unlimited resource for anyone able to tap into it. But so far, no one has. And even if they could, would they be
able to contain it? Kurt Austin and his NUMA Special Assignments team are about to find out. Kurt Austin is attending a
symposium in Sydney, Australia, when he meets a stunning theoretical physicist named Hayley Anderson at the Opera
House steps. The pair are interrupted by a boat chase raging across the harbor. But when Austin rushes to the scene, he’s
intercepted by the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. Asked to step aside, Austin isn’t quite ready to
let go of the chase, especially when he learns that Ms. Anderson is somehow connected. Disappearing documents and
sudden, unexplained earthquakes suggest she may be in trouble. And the clues point to a scientist who may have achieved
in the impossible, the construction of a zero-point energy machine.
Genre: Roman
Number of Pages: 390
Format: Book
Language: English
ISBN: 9780399162503
Reading Status: Unread
Date Added: April 24, 2021
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