Voyage of the Devilfish - Softcover

Dimercurio, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451403924 ISBN 13: 9780451403926

Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE, 1993

Synopsis

A rogue Russian officer has commandeered the last, greatest triumph of the old Soviet military: a super-sub that he plans to use to punish the United States. En route to stop him is the U.S.S. Devilfish. What follows is a technothriller of underwater chases and vivid battles. Fine.

About this title

About the Author

Michael DiMercurio is an honors graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and has served as a paratrooper, Navy diver, and as a lieutenant and Chief Propulsion Officer aboard the U.S.S. Hammerhead. He is the author of the submarine thrillers Attack of the Seawolf, Phoenix Sub Zero, Barracuda Final Bearing, Piranha Fring Point, and Threat Vector. Onyx will be publishing his next book, Terminal Run.

From Kirkus Reviews

Last-gasp cold war hostilities provide an American submarine commander the opportunity to avenge his father's death. Authentic naval detail distinguishes the debut of the author, an Annapolis graduate and submarine sailor. The plot-generating treachery at the highest levels of the former Soviet navy is a standard military thriller device, but the firsthand feel for life aboard a nuclear hunter-killer sub--as well as for warfare under the polar icecap--is fresh and welcome in this not-too-technothriller. At a time when the superpowers are supposedly dismantling their superweapons, second-generation submarine skipper Michael Pacino speeds U.S.S. Devilfish to the Arctic to sniff out a huge and remarkably stealthy new Russian sub. Commanding the fleet submarine Kalingrad over the nominal control of the boat's unhappy captain is unreconstructed Bolshevik Admiral Alexi Novskoyy--who's about to implement his private plan to knock international relations back to the late 40's with an unprovoked attack on the US. It's not his first time at wielding his own foreign policy. As a sub skipper back in the 70's, Novskoyy, without provocation, torpedoed an American boat that found his polar hiding place. The American captain in that incident was Michael Pacino's father. Novskoyy is not completely alone in his plot. He's got a mole placed at the very top of the Pentagon, an Air Force general who keeps assuring the President that the sudden appearance of the complete Russian northern submarine fleet off the American East Coast is just an exercise. The President may be buying that story, but the admiral in charge of America's Atlantic submarine fleet, Pacino's mentor and godfather, is having none of it. He sends his godson orders to do whatever may be necessary to call the Russians to heel. Tense and, when at sea, chillingly realistic. There's a hefty glossary at the end, but DiMercurio's action needs no technical assistance. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451403924
• ISBN 13: 9780451403926
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400