At the center of the deadly conflict are two men on a mission: One wants to find his father's killer, while the other wants to destroy glastnost and provoke a war. The ensuing underwater chases and battles build to a stunning showdown.

Submarine commander Aiexi Novskoyy has been sprung from prison by a multibillion-dollar organization with a very special mission in mind. The company has designed a new submarine—the Vepr—which they will use to wreak havoc on international trade. To test its new weapon, Alexi must sink a cruise ship carrying the entire brass of the U.S Navy—effectively decapitating the American fleet.The legendary USS Devilfish is called in to stop the catastrophe, only to be ambushed by the ultra-...

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...

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 ...

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...

The Hegira is the finest super-sub that Arab oil money can buy. But the U.S. Navy is only now learning just how good this undersea sword of Islam is. Already one American sub has been destroyed, and another crippled, as the Hegira breaks out of the Mediterranean and heads toward America to deliver its lethal payload.Now it's up to Captain Michael Pacino and the USS Seawolf to find the enemy sub and destroy it—in the ultimate battle between the most advanced weapons technology on th...

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...

The East China Sea. Six Japanese submarines are attacked and believed destroyed. To the world, it seems like an accident. But to one man, former submarine commander Dick Donchez, it is the first act of war. He alone knows the truth: that the old guard of Red China has stolen the subs to wage a massive attack against the new Free China. Vice Admiral Michael Pacino can't prove Donchez's theory. The U.S. government will not officially retaliate. But when a full-scale battle erupts, Pacino is ...

U.S. Navy submarine commander Peter Vornado is at the top of his game in underwater warfare when a devastating illness takes him out of the service—and almost to the grave. Without duty, honor, or something to fight for, his life is as good as over.But the CIA needs a man like Vornado…A terrorist cabal has acquired a scrapped Soviet sub from the Cold War—a technologically advanced failure still able to outrun any torpedo or enemy vessel and strike at will. With a nuclear pa...

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...

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...