Kilo Class

Robinson, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0712678875 / ISBN 13: 9780712678872

Published by Century, 1998

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VGC.Century,1998.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two nicks/dents on the edges of the cover) with Dj(some nicks,creases and scratch on the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b/w maps.Nice and clean pages with a ink mark and tainted on the outer edges,small nick and light shelf wear on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.404pp including Cast of Principal Characters. This is another paragraph Product Description: China has ordered ten Russian-built Kilo Class submarines, but this order is the last thing the Pentagon will allow. With the subs in Chinese hands, Beijing will gain control of the Taiwan Strait. The order goes out from The White House: stop the delivery, with deadly force.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kilo Class
• Publisher: Century
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712678875
• ISBN 13: 9780712678872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-first printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction : Action & Adventure

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Synopsis

The US Department of Defense is well aware of China's intention to shut the US Carrier Battle Groups out of the Taiwan Strait and then to reclaim, by military force if necessary, the rich independent island that sits only one hundred miles off China's eastern coastline. A strike force of patrolling Kilos could achieve that objective for Beijing, and two of the ten Kilos have already been delivered. Kilo Class is about US attempts to foil delivery of the other eight. The President's new National Security Adviser, the irascible Texas admiral Arnold Morgan, prepares to send the US Navy's deadliest Black Ops hit squads deep into dark Russian waters. Their missions are executed under the most crushing code of secrecy. One mistake could literally start World War III. The decision is sanctioned by the President of the United States. Now the world's three most powerful nations silently lock horns - Russia, determined to deliver the submarines to Shanghai for a payment of billions of dollars; China, determined to reclaim Taiwan by frightening off the US aircraft carriers; and the United States, brutally determined that those Kilos will never fly the flag of China above their bridges.

About the Author

Patrick Robinson is the author of seven international bestselling suspense thrillers, including Nimitz Class and Hunter Killer, as well as several nonfiction bestsellers. He divides his time between Ireland and Cape Cod.