At the height of the cold war, a cashiered SEAL officer in Japan is retained by a world famous Russian dissident to rescue a friend from the Siberian Gulag. The SEAL recruits and trains a group to undertake the cold weather operation and even finagles an off-the-books submarine&for a price. The rescue is grueling and the withdrawal harrowing.
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Widely published on maritime special operations (U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, The New York Times), R. L. Crossland brings the credibility of 30 years as a SEAL/old Asia hand/ordnance and intelligence specialist to achieve a gritty, subzero temperature crescendo in his first work of major fiction.
"A first-class war novel--exciting, terse, and a page turner for sure!" -- Robin Moore, author of The Green Berets and The French Connection
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