D. M. Ulmer 01 - Silent Battleground (39 page)
January 1949, early in the undeclared
Cold War
, the U.S. diesel-electric submarine
Kokanee
has illegally penetrated deep into Soviet Union waters of the White Sea and is detected by a pair of Russian destroyers. Depth charges fall on
Kokanee
and seem on the verge of tearing the besieged ship apart. A vindictive Russian captain is determined to eradicate the Americans.
The Cold War Beneath
The story of an event at sea off the New England coast during the post World War II years. Two submarines play a dangerous underwater game of hide and seek in this action thriller as U.S. Navy races try to find out the Russians’ true intentions for being in American waters.
Ensure Plausible Deniability
A tale of the mid-sixties Soviet Navy flexing its muscles throughout the world’s oceans by provoking head-to-head confrontations with U.S. units. Ensuing games of chicken on the surface and beneath the seas between vessels armed with nuclear weapons portended disaster.
It would take only one hotheaded skipper on either side to go off half-cocked and plunge mankind into World War III.
The saga is set in the backdrop of U.S. diesel-electric submarines’ demise to make room for the higher performance nuclear powered submarines. However, the questionable nuclear power program selection criteria disregarded submariner performance excellence and accepted officer applicants solely on academic prowess. This practice may well have portended disaster of its own.
Ensure Plausible Deniability is spiced with first-hand insights into submariner personal and distaff life.
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www.dmulmer.com
for more details about Author D.M. Ulmer
Tea and Crumpet Capers
by D.M. Ulmer
Featuring upscale and sophisticated, light stories in the mystery/suspense/thriller genre
.
Missing Person
Retired Marine Corps Sgt Maj. Kincaid, turned Associate Professor of English Literature, moonlights as a writer of mystery novels. Approached by a woman
fan
who misconstrues his literary talent for bona fide detecting skills, she retains him to locate her son missing from her life for twenty years. Kincaid reluctantly accepts and finds himself in a quagmire of intrigue, greed, and murder. The drama is set in Port Angeles, near Washington State’s magnificent Olympic Mountains.
The Roche Harbor Caper
In Washington State’s San Juan Islands, during a weekend visit arranged by Michael Kincaid for his son to become better acquainted with the focal point of Michael’s evolving romance, things go from bad to worse. Kincaid reopens a case with an official finding of accidental death many believed should have been murder. This leads to both Kincaid and his son being caught up in a wild adventure on the high seas.
The Long Beach Caper
Michael Kincaid, a retired Marine Corps Sgt. Major turned English Literature Professor, and his wife Doris, become involved in a caper while on their honeymoon in Long Beach, Washington. Their first day at Long Beach, a stranger recognizes Michael as the author of the Harry Steele detective novel series, introduces himself, then
asks Michael to investigate a mundane problem within his family, keeping or disposing of their three generation
legacy; the Heinrich
Voelcker farm
in
Idaho
.
Count the Ways
A grand romance in the classic sense. The love between a Naval Academy midshipman and an Iowa farm girl, a Korean War-era tragedy, and the search by a grandson for the mystery surrounding his grandparents’ love story.
Where or When
An absorbing love story which spans the years set in modern-day life of the Pacific Northwest and the closing years of World War I in Europe.
Tour of USS Clamagore
DVD
by Brett Kneisly starring D.M. Ulmer
Filmed on location aboard USS
Clamagore
, a Guppy III diesel-electric submarine moored at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, SC. A former Commanding Officer of
Clamagore
, Captain Don Ulmer, USN Retired, is the tour guide. Video is presented to raise awareness of this Cold War veteran submarine’s pressing need to be moved to dry land for protection and preservation for future generations.
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