Steel Wind - Edwards, Jeff

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Résumé :
Jeff Edwards writes with keen personal experience and passion for his subject matter. Steel Wind shows his mastery of outstanding naval adventure! -- JOE BUFF, Bestselling author of 'Seas of Crisis' and 'Crush Depth' What if North Korea's sudden turn towards peace is a cunning act of misdirection? A routine Coast Guard inspection of a cargo ship in the Caribbean turns into a vicious firefight with unidentified Asian commandos. The second attempt to board the vessel ends with a nuclear detonation. North Korea has been smuggling short and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. An unknown number of nuclear warheads are hidden less than 100 miles from the tip of Florida. Every American city east of San Antonio is in the target zone. Scrambling to stop the flow of weapons to Cuba, the president orders the Atlantic Fleet to surround the island, cutting off all access. It's the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time there won't be a diplomatic resolution. The North Koreans have developed a secret weapon that rips through the blockade with ease, leaving burning ships in its wake. Against this unimagined threat stand a small detachment of United States Marines and a cutting-edge destroyer that's never been tested in combat. It's a battle we never expected to fight, against an enemy we can barely comprehend... Praise for Jeff Edwards Novels: Jeff Edwards has created a superb thriller that grips the reader from beginning to end. Brilliantly executed. -- CLIVE CUSSLER, International bestselling author of 'The Rising Sea' and 'Raise the Titanic' A taut, exciting story by an author who knows his Navy. Guaranteed to keep you turning pages well into the night! -- GREG BEAR, New York Times bestselling author of 'Killing Titan' and 'Darwin's Radio' Edwards wields politics and naval combat tactics with a skill equal to the acknowledged masters of military fiction. -- THE MILITARY PRESS Other Books by Jeff Edwards Military Fiction: Sea of Shadows The Seventh Angel Sword of Shiva Cyberpunk Detective Sci-Fi: Dome City Blues Angel City Blues Short Story: Postcards from the Moon

Biographie:
Jeff Edwards is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist. Trained extensively in mainframe computers, weapons systems, and naval combat tactics, he brings an experience-based edge of authenticity to his writing. Collectively, his novels have won the Admiral Nimitz Award for Outstanding Naval Fiction, the Reader's Choice Award, the Clive Cussler Grandmaster Award for Adventure Writing, the Military Writer's Society of America Gold Medal for Navy Fiction, and the American Author Medal. His novel, The Seventh Angel, was selected for the 2012 Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program. He lives in San Diego, where he consults for the Department of Defense.