Operation White Out

<p><strong>Offers the closest literary approximation to real submarine experience during the Cold War.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>I was mesmerized by this remarkable tale of derring-do.</em>-<span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span>Captain George W. Jackson USN (Ret.)</p><p></p><p>Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries <em>USS Teuthis</em> Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying acoustic arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island Western Antarctica. <em>Teuthis </em>tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. <em>Teuthis </em>discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and<em> </em>is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. <em>Teuthis</em> is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and <em>Teuthis</em> complete their mission or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain? </p>