Standing the Watch: The Greatest Gift

Brown, R.J.

Parenting & Relationships

Big River Press

<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

Literature & Fiction

Meadows, D. Clayton

Genre Fiction

Honor Defended

D.H. Brown

Contemporary

Major Westfall is back, in another non-stop action adventure. On a freezing cold winter morning he is awakened before dawn by a frantic call from an old friend and War Brother. He is being called out to hunt for the killers who burned down a woman's house on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, abducted her, and left behind the beheaded body of her Marine Corps husband. On the beach behind the Holbech place, he finds signs that someone came ashore on the last high tide. Tracks lead to a pile of driftwood where Black Dog noses out the family's wounded dog. Putting his ear to the Hoko grapevine, he hears of a break-in at the local gravel quarry, where explosives and detonators were taken. A neighbor's grandchild mentions a missing school janitor, and the name her classmates gave him, Aladdin. When the Major takes a sneak and peek he unearths a terrorist sleeper. Calling in the troops, he prepares to do battle deep in the Olympic Peninsula wilderness where a cadre of evil souls have gathered, intent on creating havoc with the Washington State's ferries. HONOR DEFENDED occurs over one 24 hour period of heart-pounding action in which old friends are met, new ones made, the young must grow up fast as lives are broken, and the honor of a War Brother is defended.

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