John Mylroie

Broschiertes Buch

No Night As Dark

Beschreibung

Dr. David Langwonaire is abruptly taken out of the Immigration and Customs line at the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, with no explanation. He is interrogated, and confronts his questioner. He is a specialist in island caves around the world. To be approached in this manner means the United States has a problem, and it is in a cave on an island somewhere. Instead of being co-opted, David co-opts the CIA. He confronts the CIA with the mistakes and errors in their rescue plan, and presents an alternative option that involves seven U.S. Navy Seals instead of thirty-two, and a nuclear submarine instead of four helicopters. There then follows a series of adventures to get the rescue team from sub to shore, into the cave, avoid booby traps, kill a sentry (at David's own hands), and locate the hostages. In conducting the last process, the team discovers that some sort of meeting is being held in the cave that appears to be terrorist groups from around the world. To eliminate these enemies, and also create a major distraction, David sets up a time-delay IED. On the way back to the sub to complete the hostage extraction, David confronts what he interprets as a North Korean officer, shoots him dead, and discovers papers on the body that show a submarine carrying three nuclear weapons. He hypothesizes that those atomic bombs were to be competitively auctioned to the assembled terrorists. Back on board the sub, he must convince the captain that he is sharing ocean space with an enemy, most likely three North Korean submarines as they are diesel, not nuclear vessels. Then a battle at depth takes place, the three bombs are recovered, and the mission has initial success. The final conflict is internal, the official CIA report on the affair is leaked by the White House, which sets off a political firestorm with David in the middle.

Autor

John Mylroie is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Mississippi State University. After childhood in rural upstate New York, he attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1971 with a Zoology degree Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and also lettering on the soccer team. He met Joan Saxon, a fellow Zoology major and Phi Beta Kappa, in Chemistry lecture his freshman year; they were married in 1970. Draft number 69 in the first draft lottery sent John to the Navy for a year as a sonar technician. While subsequently working in the electronics laboratory of the Biology Department at SUNY Albany, John decided to turn his sporting interest in caves into a career. He entered the Geology PhD program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1974, graduating in 1977 and taking a faculty position at Murray State University where Joan earned a MSc in microbiology and taught as an instructor.John and Joan decided to start a family in 1981, and by November 1983 had three sons, the latter two appearing as undiagnosed identical twins (surprise!). With five mouths to feed, John took the Department Head position in the Geology and Geography Department (now Geosciences) at Mississippi State University in 1985. Joan later became a Geography instructor. He continued his island cave research program, often taking the entire family into the field. The National Speleological Society awarded John their Science Award for his work on island caves in 2000, and the Honorary Member award, the society's highest award, for lifetime contributions to cave science in 2008. Joan and John have completed field work in 25 countries, and they have published hundreds of professional papers, reports, field guides, and articles. Their work on islands across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas, has given them insight into how peoples and cultures interact with the environment in remote settings.After a career of writing factual material in scientific literature, John decided it was time to make things up and write fiction. He has written books in the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and spy thriller genres. No Night As Dark is his second step into publication, the first book in his ten-book "David Langwonaire Thriller Series." The fifth book, The 12th Girl, is already available. The rest are in production, so stay tuned!The author can be reached at [e-mail].

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CIKM Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781959594031
• ISBN-10: 1959594036
• Artikelnr.: 67459522