JEFF QUIMBY (LIEUTENANT), Supply Officer
TOM WILSON (LIEUTENANT), Assistant Weapons Officer
HERB CARVAHLO (LIEUTENANT [JG]), Electrical Division Officer
HECTOR LOPEZ (ENSIGN), Torpedo Division Officer
OCTAVE COSTA (LIEUTENANT), Sonar Division Officer
CHRIS VECCHIO (LIEUTENANT), Reactor Controls Division Officer (referenced only)
RADIO DIVISION
ALAN DAVIDSON, Chief Petty Officer
ROB MUSHEN, First Class Petty Officer
PETE GREENE, Third Class Petty Officer
SONAR DIVISION
TONY DELGRECO, First Class Petty Officer
BOB CIBELLI, Second Class Petty Officer
JOHN MARTIN, Second Class Petty Officer
ALEX RAMBIKUR, Second Class Petty Officer
MISSILE DIVISION
ROGER TRYON, First Class Petty Officer
JODI KREUGER, First Class Petty Officer
SCOTT SANTOS, First Class Petty Officer
DAVE REYNOLDS, Second Class Petty Officer
SCOTT WALWORTH, Second Class Petty Officer
OTHERS
STEVE PRASHAW, Chief of the Boat
JOHN BARBER, Torpedo Division Third Class Petty Officer
BOB MURPHY, Machinery Division Third Class Petty Officer
TED LUTHER, Night Baker
USS LAKE ERIE
MARY CORDEIRO (CAPTAIN), Commanding Officer
BRIAN MCKEON (SEAMAN), Helmsman
USS NORTH CAROLINA
DENNIS GALLAGHER (COMMANDER), Commanding Officer
JOSEPH RADEK, Reactor Controls Division Chief
MIKE TELL, Reactor Controls First Class Petty Officer
USS SAN FRANCISCO
KEN TYLER (COMMANDER), Commanding Officer
TOM BRADNER, Sonar Division Petty Officer
11TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE
AL KENT (SERGEANT), 11th Air Defense Staff
BRUCE CHERRY (CORPORAL), 11th Air Defense Staff
JON DEWIRE (MAJOR), Commanding Officer, Alpha Battery, 4th Regiment (THAAD)
EAGLE-FIVE-ZERO (P-3C AIR CREW)
SCOTT GRAEF (LIEUTENANT COMMANDER), Tactical Coordinator
PETE BURWELL (LIEUTENANT), Communicator
WHIDBEY ISLAND NOPF
AL CULVER, Watchstander
FRED HARMON, Maintenance Technician
OTHER CHARACTERS—NAVAL OFFICERS
ADMIRAL TIM HALE, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (referenced only)
ADMIRAL DENIS HERRELL, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Referenced Only)
COMMODORE RICK LOWE, Australian Submarine Fleet Element Group Commander
COMMANDER JOE CASEY, PCO aboard USS HOUSTON
COMMANDER DOUG BATES, PCO aboard USS HOUSTON
OTHER CHARACTERS—CIVILIANS
DANA COOKE, Landover Engineering Systems employee
CLAIRE WILSON, Murray Wilson’s wife
NANCY WILSON, Tom Wilson’s wife (referenced only)
THERESA PATTON, Mike Patton’s wife (referenced only)
SARAH ROSENFELD, Levi Rosenfeld’s daughter
RACHEL ROSENFELD, Levi Rosenfeld’s daughter
KATHERINE JANKOWSKI, mother with infant at Sandrino’s Café
KHALID ABDULLA, suicide bomber
CINDY COREY, pleasure craft sunbather
RANDY COREY, pleasure craft fisherman
MICHIYA AOCHI, fisherman on Daisan Shinsho-Maru
DOREEN CORNELLIER, Channel 9 News reporter
RICK LARSON, FBI Director (referenced only)
KEN RONAN, CIA Director (referenced only)
JOHN KENNEY, CIA Agent
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I hope you enjoyed reading The Trident Deception.
I tried to make it as realistic as possible considering the constraints. In particular, no classified information could be revealed, which required me to alter some capabilities of ships and weapons employed in the novel (speed and range, for example), which I’m sure some of you have detected and have no doubt exclaimed, “That’s not right!” You are correct. If they were accurate, this novel would be classified, so I had to “tweak” a few things.
Also, some of the tactics employed by the submarine crews were generic and also not accurate. For example, torpedo employment and torpedo evasion tactics are classified and could not be accurately represented in this novel. Finally, some of the submarine terminology and dialog isn’t right either. If they were completely correct, some it would be unintelligible due to the acronyms, and I’d have to stop frequently to explain, and the story would lurch along. So I compromised on some of the dialogue and on some of the “accuracy” of the scenes, in order to keep the story flowing smoothly along.
For all of the above, I apologize. I did my best to keep everything as close to real life without making it classified or bogging it down with acronyms or terminology too difficult or time-consuming to explain. Hopefully it all worked out and it came together into a suspenseful, page-turning novel.
Thanks for your time and I hope we get a chance to meet some day. And of course—I hope you liked The Trident Deception enough to buy the sequel, Empire Rising. Thanks again!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICK CAMPBELL, a retired Navy Commander, spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours, finishing his career with the Naval Operations staff in the Pentagon and in the Washington Navy Yard. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine’s nuclear warhead–tipped missiles. Rick lives with his wife and three children in the greater Washington, D.C., area. The Trident Deception is his first novel and he is currently working on the sequel.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE TRIDENT DECEPTION. Copyright © 2014 by Rick Campbell. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.stmartins.com
Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover photo-illustration by Steve Gardner/Pixelworks Studios, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Campbell, Rick.
The trident deception / Rick Campbell. — First Edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-03901-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-03900-2 (e-book)
1. Kentucky (Ship) — Fiction. 2. Submarines (Ships) — Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.A48223T75 2014
813'.6—dc23
2013031934
e-ISBN 9781250039002
First Edition: March 2014
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