Ergebnis für "Crisis" in Militär

The secretary of defense is dead, and no one is more shocked than Defense Policy Undersecretary Colt Garrett when he’s appointed by the president to the second-most powerful job in the world. While onboard USS Ronald Reagan in the Western Pacific, he must find and recover missing biological warheads hidden in South Korea before US efforts to bring peace to the region are derailed.

On the other side of the Atlantic, a charitable foundation in New York City, established by Alexander Dragan, a mysterious Ukrainian philanthropist. A man who harbors a bitter longing for vengeance. Dragan wants revenge for his family, murdered by two Russians during the uprising in Crimea. The killers have gone unpunished, and now he wants them dead. He recruits troubled former SEAL John Raider, bedeviled by legal troubles, to work for him.

This book is dramatically inspired and heavily informed by true historical occurrences, which took place in October 1962. In play were the USSR’s "Operations Anadyr and Kama". It all later became known, in the West as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is a fictionalized version of events that occurred on a Russian submarine, highlighting one officer, who made decisions that prevented World War III.