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    Dangerous Ground: A Jerry Mitchell Novel
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    Dangerous Ground: A Jerry Mitchell Novel

    By Larry Bond

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    The USS Memphis, a dilapidated submarine that that should have been mothballed decades ago, has been given one last mission by the newly elected president.

    The task: To sneak illegally into Russia's coastal waters and recon the leaking nuclear fuel containers hidden on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. More than just an environmental nightmare, this radioactive burial ground houses enough nuclear capability to destroy most of America's major cities.

    Lowell Hardy: The Memphis's commander, who had been looking forward to flag rank and pleasant duty upon the sub's decommissioning. Now he is trapped in an inconceivably dangerous and illegal mission which could easily end his career, if not his life and the lives of his crew. But it's the crew who feel Hardy's tension as he tyrannizes everyone on board to ensure they'll be ready for anything.

    Jerry Mitchell: A former naval pilot with political connections, he is a novice submariner, unprepared for his demanding job as a weapons officer. Central to the Memphis's mission, Mitchell may be its greatest liability . . . or its ultimate salvation.

    Dr. Joanna Patterson: The senior civilian scientist, appointed by and reporting to the president, she is a world-class expert on nuclear fuel contamination--and every bit as demanding as Hardy. Patterson and her partner, Dr. Emily Davis, soon find themselves battling flaring tempers, faulty machinery, lethal radioactivity, and the raging arctic seas.

    The submariners: Seething with rage at their Captain Bligh-like commander and the equally domineering Joanna Patterson, they are also at war with Jerry Mitchell, and one another. Like the captain, they feel they deserve better, not this antiquated relic, not this hostile scientist, not this novice weapons officer, and definitely not this disastrously dangerous mission.

    Nor is the mission what it seems. Lurking beneath the frigid, black, radioactive waters is a secret far more deadly than anything naval command could imagine--a secret so menacing the Russian Fleet is hell-bent on destroying the Memphis and all who sail in her.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429910590
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    Dangerous Ground: A Jerry Mitchell Novel
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    Larry Bond

    Larry Bond is the author of several bestselling military thrillers, including Crash Dive, Cold Choices, Dangerous Ground, Red Phoenix and the Larry Bond’s First Team and Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising series. He was a naval officer for six years, serving four on a destroyer and two on shore duty in the Washington DC area. He's also worked as a warfare analyst and antisubmarine technology expert, and he now writes and designs computer games, including Harpoon and Command at Sea. He makes his home in Springfield, Virginia.

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    • 4/5
      Dangerous Ground is the first book in the Jerry Mitchell series. Jerry Mitchell is a naval aviator whose plans come to an abrupt halt with a blown tire and a crash of his Navy Hornet. Jerry decides that if he can’t ben an aviator, he wants to be a submariner and petitions the Navy to allow him to not only remain in the Navy but also to qualify for his dolphins. After having spent millions of dollars training Jerry to be a Navy pilot, the brass is reluctant to grant the request which would take yet more training and time so Jerry uses his family connection to a US Senator to get what he wants thereby ensuring that the Navy was going to make his qualification process exceeding hard and almost impossible.Jerry is assigned to Memphis, a US submarine that – instead of being decommissioned as has been the plan over the past year – is sent out on a final mission to ensure the President’s political legacy as a strong environmentalist. That final mission takes the boat and the crew to the coast of Russia and into very dangerous territorial waters.For those of you following my reviews, you know that I like character-driven stories – characters that you love, characters that you cheer for and characters that you despise (in a good way, of course) and this story had that. You have Jerry, who you root for when many on the sub are against him for using his political pull and getting a second chance that others may not have gotten; you have Captain Hardy, hard, demanding and irascible; there’s Lenny Berg, the drama major turned submariner and the list goes on. The story was interesting, the people engaging and the crisis points tension filled. All of these, as well as my general liking for military stories, worked to get me through the very technical details of life on a submarine and the qualification process. And the acronyms…the military does love its acronyms…Overall rating: 3.75
    • 5/5
      A welcome submarine thriller author of the top drawer.Started slowly and for a while it seemed like a rookie submariner 101 course and it took a while to get past that stage. The action in the latter stages of the book is more of a simmer than explosion but superb and seemingly ultra realistic.This really is a thinking person's submarine tale.
    • 3/5
      Let's see. Hero is transferred from aviation branch thanks to influence by relative. Suffers abuse on board sub because of it. Mean but in the end kind captain. Hero overcomes hardships. Makes friends with girl on board (scientist checking out new prototype.) Helps evade attacking Russians. Lots of nifty technical detail. Mix all these standard plot elements together and you have a decent if many-times-done-before-story.

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