It is autumn 1944. A German submarine makes a daring and dangerous passage into the Arctic ice. Within the U-boat’s steel hull lies, an experiment that if successful will guarantee survival of the Third Reich. Unknown to those onboard events are occurring on the opposite side of the world that will leave them trapped and dying in a frozen hell. In a desperate attempt to save his crew the Captain utilizes the secret cargo that puts his crew in suspended animation. Decades later they awaken to a strange new world. Their only wish is to get home. A new Russian revolution has occurred. The world is on edge, as civil war breaks out in the former Soviet Union. Then during the fighting an American plane is blasted from the sky by Russian missiles. As nations draw their battle lines the world economy withers. A spark is all that will be needed to ignite a total nuclear war. It is now that the U-boat makes her run for home. Confronted by warships, and having no idea the war ended more than a half century ago, the U-boat defends herself. Then other ships begin to disappear. Russia and the United States blame each other as one more step toward war is taken. One man though finds the answer. At the last moment his fantastic story is believed and the two sides agree to each send a submarine to find the U-boat and force her to surrender or send her to the bottom. Can three men from different times, cultures and backgrounds, overcome fear hate and their own demons to save the world?

Of Ice And Steel: A Cataclysmic International Conflict Across Space And Time.

Literature & Fiction

Meadows, D. Clayton

Contemporary

Leatherneck Pub

<p>Written in brief episodes, EPTAPH tells the dramatic tale of Russian and American submariners who set out to thwart a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device placed at the base of Ellis Island, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. GRANT MCKINNON stands in a January snow storm, watching his USS MIAMI moored at the US Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut. He is troubled by a message he has just received from VALERIK DANYANKOV, Commander of an AKULA class submarine, out of Lapadnaya Lista, the Russian Submarine Base. Their paths had crossed before, in OF ICE AND STEEL, and they had become friends. In the Persian Gulf, near Iran's Bander-E Abbas Naval Base, Commander ASHA FEROZ, aboard his old Russian KILO class submarine, has come up with a way to put into action his master's plan of revenge and destruction. Meanwhile, the Sonar operator aboard the USS TEXAS, in the Persian Gulf to monitor Iran's naval maneuvers as they test a new torpedo, separates a strange signature from the clutter of a fishing fleet. And the chase is on. In this day and age of GPS reckoning and hi-tech listening devices, little moves above, in or under the oceans of the world, without someone seeing it, unless you hide within plain sight. With every turn of the submarines' screws, EPITAPH's tension torques as the commanders converge in the cold waters of New York Harbor.</p>

Epitaph

Genre Fiction

Big River Press

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