Destroy the Kentucky
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
“More twists and turns and intriguing characters than any three adventure tales…tough to tear your eyes from” (Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author of the Dirk Pitt® series).
SPIES, SOLDIERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS—IN THE HUNT FOR THE KENTUCKY
PETER MacKENZIE: In the USS Seawolf he had outdueled the Soviet’s best submarine. But a tragic accident wrecked his self-confidence. Now he’s back in foreign waters in command of a Soviet submarine—and a top-secret hunt for the stolen US minisub…
RAZA: Brought to Moscow for special training, he became a colonel in the Spetsnatz Special Forces and head of a radical group in Turkmenistan, his native Arab land. Then he masterminded the taking of the Kentucky—and turned it against his former masters…
JUSTINE SEGURRA: She was painfully familiar with the ways of revolution. Now the CIA agent and wife of Captain MacKenzie is living and riding with hard, committed desert men—searching for the Kentucky’s missing nuclear payload…
KEMAL: He is the charismatic leader of the Karadeen and the grandson of the Mahdi—holy man—imprisoned by the Soviets. The Russians have told him that the recovery of the hijacked missiles will mean freedom for the Madhi, but he has his own plans for his proud people…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With the setting alternating between an underwater sub and the vast Kara Kum desert, Davis's ( Raise the Red Dawn ) new military novel is a winner in which people, not gadgetry, are paramount and adventure is delivered at satisfying clip. Turkmenistan, a Soviet republic, backs its bid for independence with some serious fire power: its agents steal the USS Kentucky, a new small, fast submarine armed with four cruise missiles. Sending the Kentucky to sea with two missiles, the separatists hide the other two in the Kara Kum desert. While the Soviets have a new sonar system that might be able to locate the deep-diving sub, only the Americans have the full scoop on the Kentucky, so they pool their resources: Capt. Peter MacKenzie of the U.S. Navy takes a Soviet sub out to destroy the Kentucky , but the mission only will be accomplished if he can convince his slack Soviet crew to stop thinking of him as the enemy and pull together as a team. Meanwhile Justine, Peter's wife and an experienced and deadly CIA agent, joins with a Soviet general and the chief of a desert tribe to find the two hidden missiles. Each member of this unusual trio distrusts the others--and with good cause.
