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The story opens with Captain Helen St. James taking the newest U.S. submarine, USS Hunley, out for sea trials and testing her new propulsion system. While underway on the trials a message is received that the Islamic Republic sending carrier task forces on what is considered unusual maneuvers. We soon find out that all nuclear weapons have been destroyed as well as all spy satellites. The Islamic Republic is formed when all the countries from North Africa through the Middle East put aside their differences and join together in opposition to the west. They then build up their industrial base and build a mighty military force.
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A U.S. submarine is sunk off the coast of Tripoli and the Republic uses this as an excuse to declare war. They seal off the Mediterranean trapping several U.S. ships and order them to surrender or be sunk. They attack Washington D.C. by running Lear jets loaded with high explosives into the White House and Pentagon. (This book was originally published in 2000 well before 9/11.) A U.S., British and French carrier battle group attack a superior Islamic group in an attempt to free the U.S. ships from the Med. The battle is a draw and a cripple Hunley has to take on the bottleneck of ships in the Straits of Gibraltar to release the trapped U.S. ships.

The final mission in the book for the Hunley is to land a SEAL team on unfriendly shores, then take on an invasion force heading for Italy.
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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book descript. of violence and chases 40%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30%How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story    -   very upbeat Time/era of story:    -   near future Spying/Terrorism Thriller    -   Yes War Thriller    -   Yes Armed Forces:    -   Navy Specific to    -   near future war Kid or adult book?    -   Adult or Young Adult Book Who's the terrorist enemy here?    -   arabs and/or muslims Search for technology?    -   special ship Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story?    -   Yes

Main Character

Gender    -   Female Profession/status:    -   navy soldier Age:    -   20's-30's Ethnicity/Race    -   White/American

Setting

Water?    -   Yes Water:    -   warship    -   submarining Misc setting    -   fort/military installation

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately detailed references to deaths Explicit sex in book?    -   Yes What kind of sex:    -   descript of kissing    -   descript. of breasts A lot of techno jargon?    -   Yes Kind of jargon?    -   military technology Unusual forms of death    -   exploded into bits Unusual form of death?    -   Yes Amount of dialog    -   roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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