The Trident Deception

The Trident Deception
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250039010

A modern-day Hunt for Red October—an armed nuclear submarine is taken over and must be hunted down before its weapons are launched

Deep Strike

Deep Strike
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250274834

In Rick Campbell's next action-packed thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine—funded by ISIS—en route to launch a missile attack against the east coast of the U.S. A shoulder-launched missile attack on a convoy of vehicles leaving the U.N. headquarters in New York kills several diplomats, including the American ambassador. Security footage reveals that the killer behind the attack is a disgraced former special forces operative, Mark Alperi. But before U.S. intelligence operatives can catch up with him, Alperi is already onto the next phase of his plan. With funding from the nearly shattered ISIS, Alperi plans an attack on the U.S. that will be more devastating than 9/11. He bribes a desperate Russian submarine commander with access to an expensive experimental drug for his daughter who is suffering from a rare disease. In exchange, the Russian commander will take his submarine to the Atlantic Ocean and launch a salvo of missiles at various targets along the East Coast of the United States. The commander lies to his crew that it's a secret mission, with dummy missiles, for a training exercise. At the same time, unbeknownst to the commander, Alperi has arranged for four of the missile warheads to be replaced with four surplus nuclear warheads and arms them. When the Russian submarine sinks the U.S. sub that is tracking it, the U.S. military is alarmed. When Intelligence uncovers Alperi's plot, though, it becomes a race against time—find the Russian sub and sink it before it can launch a devastating nuclear attack.

Empire Rising

Empire Rising
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250040469

A sequel to The Trident Deception follows the launch of China's expansion campaign throughout Asia by way of Japan, a plot that is countered by three unlikely allies including America's National Security Advisor, the commanding officer of a submarine and a Navy SEAL.

Ice Station Nautilus

Ice Station Nautilus
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250072158

A thilling race against time—and the Russian military—to rescue the men trapped in two disabled nuclear submarines under the arctic polar cap

Power Play

Power Play
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250231116

Power Play, a thrilling new Trident Deception short story by Rick Campbell. The Russians have their newest class of nuclear attack submarine and is taking it, K-561 Kazan, on a shakedown cruise. Unbeknownst to them, however, this new submarine is being followed by an American submarine, the USS Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh is to gather any intelligence they can on this new Russian submarine while avoiding detection by the Russians. But what first appears to be the rollout of a new type of submarine, might well be something completely different. Instead the Pittsburgh witness a torpedo firing exercise—and the radical new technology might well not be the submarine, but the torpedo.

Blackmail

Blackmail
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1800320701

A new Cold War is on the horizon, one with even greater consequences... The US aircraft carrier patrolling the Western Pacific Ocean is severely damaged by a surprise salvo of cruise missiles. While the Russian government claims it was an accident during a training exercise, it was instead a calculated provocation. With the US Pacific fleet already severely under strength, the Russian president decides that the US response is a clear indication of their weakness, militarily and politically, and initiates a bold plan. In one sharp strike, the Russian army moves to reoccupy a large number of the industrialised areas of the former USSR while blockading the vital sea passages through which the world's oil and natural gas transit. To make matters worse, Russia's Special Forces have wired every major oil and natural gas pipeline with explosives. If the US makes one move to thwart Russia, they'll destroy them all. Torn between the unthinkable and the impossible, the only possible move is to launch an attack on all fronts. An absolutely exceptional military action thriller, for fans of Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz and Clive Cussler.

What Was Mine

What Was Mine
Author: Helen Klein Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476732361

Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It’s a secret she manages to keep for over two decades—from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy’s now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood. Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia’s birth mother, and others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects of a single, irrevocable moment.

Stalking the Red Bear

Stalking the Red Bear
Author: Peter T. Sasgen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0312380232

This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. b&w photo insert.

The Apollo Deception

The Apollo Deception
Author: Mitch Silver
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448303591

Gary Stephens is brought into a government-sanctioned cover-up when he discovers that his father helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landing in the 1960s. After China announce a space mission to place their own flag next to the one US astronauts planted during the Apollo 11 mission, few people bat an eyelid. Shortly after this statement Charlie Stephens, a 81-year-old former filmmaker, is murdered. The incident is made to look like an accident, but why? Going through his father’s effects, Gary Stephens – a director of beer and yogurt ads – discovers seven cans of old 35mm film. Dated before the landing, they’re identical to the footage NASA claims was shot by the Apollo 11 crew. The US flag is not and has never been in the Sea of Tranquillity, and only Tricky Dick and a handful of others knew it. Why was the real nature of the Apollo 11 mission kept hidden? And what measures will be taken to keep the secret buried?