Download or read book Dead Man Launch written by John J. Gobbell and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John J. Gobbell is the John Le Carré of Naval thrillers." --John Lehman, Former Secretary of the Navy The year is 1968, and global upheaval is the norm. As the war rages in Southeast Asia, a US traitor sells top-secret codes to the Soviet Union. Then a Soviet submarine disappears in the North Pacific...and as the Russians mobilize to find it, a US nuclear submarine goes missing as well. Vice Admiral Todd Ingram is caught in the morass--and so is his son, Navy Lieutenant Jerry Ingram. Both men are thrust into a web of alliances and betrayal in search of answers...and a truth that could save the world from a major disaster. ______________________ Praise for John J. Gobbell and DEAD MAN LAUNCH: "These novels...benefit from the real experiences of an author who did active service as a surface warfare officer." --U.S. Naval Institute Press "Dead Man Launch brilliantly brings to life an era when mankind teetered on the brink of Armageddon and promises to keep the reading lamp lit into the wee hours." --Quarterdeck Magazine ______________________ What readers are saying: ★★★★★ "Gobbell is to the US Navy as W. E. B. Griffin is to the US Army..." ★★★★★ "This is the first of John Gobbell's novels I've read, but it definitely won't be the last." ★★★★★ "Never thought I would see an author cover the Navy so well, but he has done just that. Bravo Zulu John J. Gobbell!!!"
Download or read book Dead Man Launch written by John J. Gobbell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1968, a time when global upheaval seems the norm. The war in Southeast Asia rages along with prolonged civil unrest at home. Amongst this, turncoat Navy Warrant Officer JOHNNIE WALKER begins an extended relationship with the Soviet Union by selling top-secret crypto key lists to them to fulfill a voracious appetite for the good life.This prompts the Soviets to order their friends, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), to seize the USS Pueblo (AGER 2) steaming in international waters off the coast of North Korea. The Pueblo carries the KWR 37 coding machine, allowing the Soviets to read the codified material Walker had sold to them.And then it gets worse as President Lyndon Johnson gives up and refuses to run for a second term. Right after that, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated two months apart. With the nation still reeling and grieving, the Democratic National convention is disrupted by riots that August.Caught in the morass is Naval Academy graduate Lieutenant (j.g.) JERRY INGRAM. Just out of flight school, Young Ingram is a is a freshly minted P-3 (4-engined submarine hunting patrol plane) co-pilot assigned to a P-3 squadron in Sigonella, Sicily. En route to his first duty assignment, Jerry falls in love with RITA HERNANDEZ. A Mexican beauty who has made it big in New York's fashion world. They settle in Catania nearby and Jerry, who squeaked by in life, due to the influence of his father, Vice Admiral TODD INGRAM, suddenly realizes he is involved in serious bustiness. He vows to bear down and make a go of it, as a pilot and as a husband. Instead, he comes home one night to find Rita in bed with MICHELANGELO RUGANI, a wealthy and handsome Italian ski-bum and Winter Olympics wanna be who also represents the Rugani family's Enzio line of Fragrances. Jerry beats the daylights out of Michelangelo and is censured by the U.S. State Department and the U.S, Navy for his trouble. Politics are in play as the Navy hangs an article 133 charge, conduct unbecoming an officer, around Jerry's neck but whisks him off to another duty station to get him out of sight.With Jerry's disappearance, a vengeful Rugani family (Poster- boy Michelangelo has lost three front teeth and has two broken ribs) sends Michelangelo's body guard, Giorgio Michelleti, strong man of the Salvati Mafioso family, of Sicily after Rita who has taken refuge in her father's vineyard high in the hills above Vera Cruz, Mexico. Jerry is assigned to squadron VP 72 at Barber's Point, Hawaii. From there and other bases, the U.S. Navy searches for Soviet submarines that seem to be popping up like ten-pins all over the Pacific. And he is uncomfortably close to his father who is commanding officer of the top-secret Fleet SIGINT Operations Control Center in Kunia, Oahu, Hawaii. Todd Ingram's on-again, off-again friend is Soviet Navy Captain First Rank EDUARD DEZHNEV who he first met in 1942 (A Code for Tomorrow). More recently, they re-kindled their friendship when Dezhnev helped save Ingram's life right after Japan's surrender in 1945 (Edge of Valor). Over the years, Dezhnev declines the invitation of CIA agent OLIVER TOLIVER to come over to the other side. Desperately earnest, he wants to somehow help change his beloved Rodina for the better. And Eduard is proud of his son, Starshiyi Leytenant VLADIMIR UTKIN DEZHNEV, also a newly minted naval officer. Young Vladimir is highly regarded for his computer skills and is attached to the K-129.But the soviet boomer sinks in the Central Pacific with all hands. Only Jerry Ingram, while on a special assignment aboard an American submarine, sees through the periscope what really happened to the K-129. And now, the KGB closes in on Dezhnev. With his fianc�, ROXANNA UTKIN, he is barely a half-step ahead of them as they scramble aboard a Black Sea ferry in Sochi, Russia, and make it to Trabzon, Turkey, and ultimately American hands.
Download or read book The Last Lieutenant written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUTNUMBERED Under an unstoppable barrage of artillery, brilliant U.S. cryptographers crack the Japanese top-secret code, revealing their chilling plans for a doomsday attack on Midway Island. OUTGUNNED The Navy's high command responds quickly, mobilizing all they have to counter-attack the massive Japanese firepower. But there is a mole among the code-cracking team-a ruthless, cold-blooded Nazi spy on orders to stop at nothing in aiding the Japanese. BUT NOT OUTSMARTED Enter Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram-the man the mole didn't count on. As the Japanese ravage the South Pacific, Ingram must escape the onslaught-and stop a traitor who has the power to turn the tide of war toward the land of the rising sun. In the heart-pounding tradition of Eye of the Needle comes a thriller full of raw courage, non-stop action, and an unforgettable villain.
Download or read book Dead Man s Deal written by Jocelynn Drake and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Man's Deal by Jocelynn Drake continues the dark and dangerous adventures of a magical tattoo artist begun in Angel's Ink. In a gritty urban fantasy world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires swim free in a sea of humanity, sometimes you need an edge. Looking for a little love? Need some luck? Desperate for revenge? Gage can give you what you need. The most talented tattoo artist in town, he knows the right symbol and the right mix of ingredients and ink to achieve your heart's desire. One tattoo is all it takes. But remember, everything has its price. The wizards know Gage is using forbidden magic, and they intend to punish him for his transgressions. Too bad if innocent humans and monsters—entire cities—get in the way. They will quell a nascent magical uprising and Gage will be the sacrifice they need. First, though, they have to find him.
Download or read book Dead Man s Time written by Peter James and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is haunted by the past in his latest case, and his private life, in Dead Man's Time, by award winning crime writer Peter James. A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant fighting for her life. Millions of pounds’ worth of valuables have been stolen. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of England, across Europe and all the way back to the New York waterfront’s gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man’s greed and another man’s fury. Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Dead Man's Time is the ninth gripping title in the bestselling series. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Want You Dead and You Are Dead. Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.
Download or read book The Neptune Strategy written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former naval officer John J. Gobbell brings to life marine warfare as few others ever have. Now, the author of When Duty Whispers Low, A Code For Tomorrow, and The Last Lieutenant, returns to the fiery panorama of World War II, as Commander Todd Ingram is caught in a living hell. BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL... In 1944, the Allies have delivered a stunning blow to Hitler's Western front. In the Pacific, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth fleet is poised to eviscerate the Japanese Navy--and begin a new war for the occupied islands. But in the center of this world-spanning drama, a lone Japanese submarine is on a mission of a very different kind. And on board is Todd Ingram, a prisoner of war and captive of fate. IS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF DECEPTION. Navy brass knows Ingram is on the sub, but can't reveal its ability to break Japanese code. So Ingram's friend, Captain Jerry Landa, is put in charge of a covert "Neptune Strategy" to save Ingram. But Landa can't help himself as he falls for Ingram's wife Helen while the top brass demands to know where the Japanese sub is going, who is in command--and what its astounding ultimate mission really is... "The Neptune Strategy is a fast-paced World War II story that is not only a page-turner, but managed to teach me a few things, too. I don't know of any novels set aboard a Japanese submarine but this is one, and it's an adventurous blend of fact and fiction that hooked me from the moment Commander Todd Ingram, Gobbell's realistic hero, is knocked overboard into the path of a marauding I-boat." --Homer Hickham, author of The Ambassador's Son and October Sky "A solid addition to Gobbell's developing war chronicle, as much historical fiction as military adventure." --Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Code For Tomorrow written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spy mission in World War II Philippines, U.S. Navy lieutenant Todd Ingram tries to rescue a girlfriend, trapped by Japan's occupation. Instead, Ingram is captured by the Japanese and it is she, now a guerrilla chief, who saves him. By the author of The Last Lieutenant.
Download or read book Dead Man Leading written by V.S. Pritchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1937, this thrilling novel tells the story of an expedition by three Englishmen into the Brazilian jungle; a journey which turns into an obsessive quest for the truth behind a missionary's disappearance seventeen years earlier. The three men are each linked in different ways to the same woman in England, and her presence overshadows the whole narrative. At the centre of the expedition is Harry Johnson, the son of the missing missionary-a solitary explorer-hero who is obsessed by the woman, Lucy. Charles Wright, the leader of the expedition, is Lucy's step-father, and Gilbert Phillips, the journalist accompanying the party, was once her lover. In Dead Man Leading, a novel of rivalries and intense emotion set in a remote and exotic landscape, V. S. Pritchett examines the obscure motivation behind the explorer's passion for solitude and hardship and his flight from 'normal' life.
Download or read book Archaeologists and the Dead written by Howard Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organizational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues that have hitherto often remained "unspoken" among the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as "death-workers" of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context that highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.
Download or read book Launch written by Michael A. Stelzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've been let down by the undelivered promises of marketing, this book is for you. Launch reveals a new way to grow your business that involves focusing on the needs of others, giving gifts, working with outsiders, and restraining your marketing messages. These principles are precisely the opposite of traditional marketing. Yet they work. And they are the future. If you follow the formula outlined in this book, you can attract countless customers and prospects, resulting in amazing business growth. This book will show you how to: Create highly sharable content that meets people's needs Identify and work with outside experts, many of whom will gladly promote your content Attract and retain raving fans that will help your business grow Creatively market and sell to people who will gladly purchase your products and services Launch isn't like other marketing books. Rather than making keen observations about others who’ve achieved success, the ideas and principles in this book were developed, refined, and practiced by the author to great success. Pick up a copy for yourself and one for a friend.
Download or read book Dead Man s Folly written by Агата Кристи and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Перед вами одна из самых запутанных историй от королевы классического детектива Агаты Кристи. Гениальный сыщик Эркюль Пуаро сталкивается с непростой задачей. На веселой сельской ярмарке происходит предумышленное убийство, а одна из героинь пропадает без вести. Дело осложняется тем, что никто не понимает, жертва она или преступница. Пуаро неоднократно сбивается в своем расследовании, но каждый раз нить рассуждений приводит его к загадочному летнему домику под названием «Причуда».Неадаптированный текст романа на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями и словарем.
Download or read book Dead Man s Tale written by G. A. Lisby and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gates of the prison slowly open. The frail bent man limps out after seventeen years. Little does he understand of the trap he is walking into. Can he stay alive? Can he keep his children safe? Does he have the skill it will take? It will take all he learned in prison and more. Strap yourself in, it will be a bumpy ride.
Download or read book When Duty Whispers Low written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John J. Gobbell's spectacular epic novel captures all the intrigue, deception, and heroism of the confrontation between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese in the South Pacific during World War II.
Download or read book Dead Man Leading written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Launch Gate written by Sturgis K. Isaac and published by Sturgis K. Isaac. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a boy goes in to get his annal physical. Doctors find something in his blood's DNA something..different. The discovery skyrockets mankind’s technology centuries ahead. Possibly too far head. When a space mission to the unknown object at the back of the our solar system called “Pluto” becomes not only a prerogative for scientist but a very visible possibility. We gain the attention of other beings..With the aid of the young man named Herron and his new abilities. Mankind’s new technological prowess angers the Gods. It was determined that the mortals on Earth praised their science more than their creators. The mighty Gods of Olympus cast a day of reckoning on the Earth. Catastrophe strikes world wide in a instate. When Hades and his armies are unleashed on the people of Earth. But Hades finds that the Earth has inherited new god like individuals. individuals like Heronn, but Herron, the Earth and the others like him only play a small part in an much more colossal situation.
Download or read book Date with a Dead Man written by Brett Halliday and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange disappearance leads Mike Shayne to investigate a death on the open sea Mike Shayne is savoring a nightcap when his secretary calls in a panic. Lucy Hamilton doesn’t scare easily and as soon as Shayne hears her voice, he knows this must be a matter of life and death. Hamilton’s neighbor has vanished, and only Shayne knows Miami well enough to find him. One of only 2 survivors in a recent plane crash, Jasper Groat had been acting strange ever since his life was spared, and tonight, he walked away and didn’t come back. The “lucky” survivor was carrying a deadly secret. During the 9 days he spent adrift at sea, Groat filled a diary with damning details about the accident and its aftermath. There are people who might kill to get their hands on the incriminating journal—that is, if Shayne doesn’t find it first. Date with a Dead Man is the 32nd book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Dead Man s Hand written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosley's Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rigged poker game, but soon begins to wonder who the real mark is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing world--including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others--combine to form a winning hand.
