Submarine Attack #34

Lt. Comdr. Reynolds Hale commands the nuclear-powered USS Beeray on a perilous reconnaissance mission along the China coast, where he discovers a massive invasion force assembling in a shallow bay—twenty thousand troops or more preparing to strike. When a Communist destroyer traps his submarine in treacherous shoal waters, Hale must outmaneuver a determined enemy who wants to capture his atomic sub intact at any cost. A tense game of naval cat-and-mouse unfolds as the commander races against the odds to escape with vital intelligence and keep America's most advanced vessel from falling into enemy hands.

In March 1942, the Nazi submarine U-238 commits an unspeakable war crime by firing on the lifeboats of a torpedoed convoy—a young seaman named George Heffernan witnesses the atrocity firsthand. Years later, now a commander of a nuclear-powered submarine, Heffernan leads a dangerous salvage mission to locate the wreck of U-238 and recover its lost log, hoping to uncover the truth behind the testimony that sent Captain von Graafen to prison at Nuremberg.

When the U.S.S. Barkfish's atomic-powered hull tangles with a Soviet spy trawler off the Maine coast in 1962, Lt. Comdr. Jonas Bartell thinks he's discouraged the enemy—until a sabotaged cable fouls his propeller and his frogmen find themselves facing an underwater assault with a steel-mesh net closing in fast. A silent, desperate battle unfolds in the cold Atlantic depths as American and Soviet divers clash over control of the Navy's newest secret.