by Don Keith
Donnegan shook his head. “Damn politicians! They could screw up a one-car funeral. Then they convince you that they need a new government agency to fix the problem.”
The old spy took a healthy swig of his mai tai. “But as you now know, Jon, you got to play the political game with them if you want them to spend a few billion dollars on all those toys you need.”
“I don’t remember you mentioning that in the orientation when I clocked in, Papa Tom, but I soon learned the lay of the land,” Jon told him.
“Far cry from driving a submarine, ain’t it?” Donnegan said with a laugh. “Decide you need to go right full rudder, ahead flank, you go right full rudder, ahead flank. No need to first run it by a bunch of guys with a chest full of ribbons, three Congressional committees, or any-damn-body else.” Donnegan glanced over at the younger Ward, winked, and flashed a mischievous grin. “Now, tell me more about that Chinese girlfriend of yours, Jim-boy.”
Jim Ward blushed.
“Well, I did just spend ten days in a hotel room in Taipei, sometimes with her there, but to tell you the truth, Papa Tom, it’s mostly a very boring story.”
“Damn, boy! Here’s your daddy telling me what a hard-charger you are…”
The three warriors shared a laugh and a mai tai toast to beautiful spies, hotel rooms, and very boring stories.
Meanwhile, the departing submarine down below was moving past Iroquois Point, almost to the mouth of Pearl Harbor and the wide Pacific, on her way to do her part to try to maintain peace in a very unpeaceful world.
SILENT RUNNING
The fulcrum of global power is shifting.
Is it too late to restore the balance?
Biding its time for decades, China has patiently lain in wait for its chance at global dominance. Long content to needle the West while secretly amassing intelligence, technology, and resources, the war chest is now full and the gears of the colossus are grinding into motion.
New arenas of modern battle emerge as China wages an all-out cyber assault on the West. And the more familiar tactics of brute strength play out in its bold attacks against sovereign neighbors. The scope of the Chinese menace draws the US into the melee.
But then US Naval Intelligence learns the true reasons for, and the vulnerabilities of, the Middle Kingdom’s aggression.
Will the men, women, and submarines of America's Silent Service be able to hang on to a tenuous world order...or have the scales already tipped too far?
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Commander George Wallace
Commander George Wallace retired to the civilian business world in 1995, after twenty-two years of service on nuclear submarines. He served on two of Admiral Rickover's famous "Forty One for Freedom", the USS John Adams SSBN 620 and the USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN 624, during which time he made nine one-hundred-day deterrent patrols through the height of the Cold War.
Commander Wallace served as Executive Officer on the Sturgeon class nuclear attack submarine USS Spadefish, SSN 668. Spadefish and all her sisters were decommissioned during the downsizings that occurred in the 1990's. The passing of that great ship served as the inspiration for "Final Bearing."
Commander Wallace commanded the Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine USS Houston, SSN 713 from February 1990 to August 1992. During this tour of duty that he worked extensively with the SEAL community developing SEAL/submarine tactics. Under Commander Wallace, the Houston was awarded the CIA Meritorious Unit Citation.
Commander Wallace lives with his wife, Penny, in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Don Keith
Don Keith is a native Alabamian and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he received his degree in broadcast and film with a double major in literature. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting. He is also the only person to be named Billboard Magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years and also owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station, and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.
His first novel, "The Forever Season." was published in fall 1995 to commercial and critical success. It won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award in 1997. His second novel, "Wizard of the Wind," was based on Keith's years in radio. Keith next released a series of young adult/men’s adventure novels co-written with Kent Wright set in stock car racing, titled "The Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing Series." Keith has most recently published several non-fiction historical works about World War II submarine history and co-authored “The Ice Diaries” with Captain William Anderson, the second skipper of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine. Captain Anderson took the submarine on her historic trip across the top of the world and through the North Pole in August 1958.
Mr. Keith lives with his wife, Charlene, in Indian Springs Village, Alabama.
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