What happens when you combine Russian billionaires, a crazy president and nuclear weapons?… World War III. Only one man can stop it, former Navy SEAL, John Denning. Ripped from today's headlines, this military thriller picks up where Tom Clancy left off.John Denning (JD) has no idea a routine assignment will bring him to the edge of a nuclear war with Russia. This FBI Special Agent and former Navy SEAL, travels to Ketchikan, Alaska to take a small time felon into custody and return him to Portland, Oregon to stand trial.Taking a boat to an abandoned mine and far from cell phone service, JD is ambushed by ten professionals in full SEAL team gear. JD is forced deep into a uranium mine by a sophisticated Russian military operation on American soil!But why would Russia risk war with the United States of America?A Russian, Typhoon class, ballistic missile nuclear submarine and Iranian terrorists are only two of the many obstacles JD faces to stop total devastation of North America. And practically no one else has a clue.Can JD single-handedly stop the Russians and the Iranians from starting World War III?Only JD, in his own words, can tell you.
First, to my Russian friends, all who wish to remain anonymous:
Please accept my most sincere and deepest apologies for my poor translations, incorrect numberings and spelling.
I’m sorry but you guys have a really, really weird language, alphabet and numbering system!
But thank you for your truly valuable insights into your fascinating and rich culture.
Without your help this book would not have been possible.
With over one million of your websites blocked, you are much more brave than me.
Thank you!
And saying thank you to some very special people by name seems also to be quite trite, without whose assistance this book would not have been possible.
Many people were legally not able to be named individually or were too humble, you know who you are and thank you.
Except for my family, they are not in any particular order and I certainly don’t mean to slight anyone not higher on the list.
All of you are at the top of my list and I can’t thank you enough:
My editor in chief (and wife): Mary
My children: Robert, Rebecca & Bethany
John Dunham 1957-2016
Ruth Ann Dyke Zirkle
Jeanne Petrie Lampi
Michelle Masden
Pilot/Owner Island Wings Air Service
Ketchikan, Alaska
Chief Jeremy Kastner
United States Coast Guard
Robert Richter, M.D.
Don Burgess, Ph.D.
Pepper O’ Shaughnessy
Captain Ken Curry
Former USAF, B-52 Aircraft Commander
Special thanks to: Norman Polmar
United States Navy
United States Special Operations Command
United States Naval Institute
Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
United States Forest Service
United States Geological Survey
All the good people at:
Inn at Creek Street and the New York Hotel
Ketchikan, Alaska
Richard Bass 1929-2015
Captain Valentin Vasili
Commanding officer,
Admiral Victor Perchinkov
Minister of Defence, Russia
Ivan Mironovich
President of Russia
Kapitan-Leytenant Casmerov
Kapitan-Leytenant — 3rd Rank,
Kapitan Nikolai Alexi
Kapitan, 2nd Rank,
Olga Kasparov
Anchor, Russian
John Denning (“JD”)
FBI, Special Agent; Former BMCS
SEAL Team Six
Mohammed Al-Aqsa (MAA)
Engineering student
Portland State University
Tom Watson (CCO)
Chief Communication’s Officer
Jennifer Tavana (FBI)
Former Lieutenant Commander
USS
Tad Murphy
Seaman, Sonar Technician, ST
USS
Fred Turner
National Security Agency
Satellite Analyst
Jerry Fredricks
National Security Agency
Data Systems Specialist
Jack Tanner
Captain of
Fisherman
Mike Gardener
First Mate,
Tom Watkins
FBI, Special Agent
Yusef Abdullah
Portland Restaurant Owner
Friend of JD’s
Sally Abdullah
Wife of Yusef Abdullah
General Petrov Andropov
Russian General, Siloviki Clan
General Sergei Aleksandrov
Russian General, Siloviki Clan
General Aleksandr Bortnikov
Russian General, Siloviki Clan
Viktor Sokolov
Assistant to President Mironovich
Nikolai Alexi
Dmitri Rostislav
George Ruddy, Ph.D.
Former Mathematics Professor,
Harvard University
Robert S. Stone
Police Chief, Ketchikan, Alaska
Yura Stone
Wife of Police Chief
Emergency 911 Supervisor
Tony Stone
Police Officer
Son of Robert Stone
Vladimir Peskov
Sr. Scientist, RUS
Russia Uranium Specialty Company
Bert (‘P’ man) Parks
Lieutenant Commander,
Al Reynolds
Mining Claim Holder
Bokan Mountain, AK
Tatiana Ivanov
Medical Doktor (MD)
Moscow, Russia
General Victor Zelin
General, Russian Ministry of Defense
Katrina (The Wolf) Volkov
Girlfriend of George Ruddy
James McMillan
Officer of the Deck,
Captain George Murray
Captain of the
Commander Orlov
Russian GRU Special Forces
Brigadier General Bahadur,
Iranian Defense Forces
Jimmy Thomas
Pilot, Ketchikan, Alaska
Boris Babkin
Russian Fortress Designer
Bokan Mountain
General Norton
General, USAF Aerospace
Defense Command Center
Peterson AFB, Colorado
John A. (Skull) Smith
FBI Hostage Rescue Team
(HRT) Gold Team Leader
Admiral Kenneth Baker
Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Stacy Macavoy
Anchor, ABC 7, Anchorage
Alaska News Today
Wayne Christian
Reporter, ABC 7, Anchorage
Alaska News Today
Andrew Gibbs
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
John Anderson
Senior American Diplomat
Andrei Alexeev
Senior Russian Diplomat
AOAIA
Advanced Oceanography
Acoustic Intelligence Analysis
APKWS
Advanced Precision Kill
Weapon System
ASW
Anti-Submarine Warfare
ASWOC
Anti-Submarine Warfare
