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Senior Chief Sonar Technician Halleck, Sonar Division Chief Petty Officer

American Characters

Lieutenant Commander Gill Adams, Executive Officer, USS
Oklahoma City
(SSN 723)

Gregory Alexander, U.S. Director of National Intelligence

Milt Alvarez, White House Chief of Staff

Rear Admiral Wayne Burroughs, Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Commander Bruce Dobson, Commanding Officer, USS
Oklahoma City
(SSN 723)

Malcolm Geisler, U.S. Secretary of Defense

Allison Gray, Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Senator Lowell Hardy (D-CT), former captain of USS
Memphis
(SSN 691)

Admiral Bernard Hughes, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations

Captain Glenn Jacobs, Commander, Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 15 Chief Staff Officer

Andrew Lloyd, U.S. Secretary of State

Evangeline McDowell, President’s secretary

Kenneth L. Myles, President of the United States

Commander Scott Nevens, Commanding Officer, USS
North Carolina
(SSN 777)

Commander Ian Pascovich, Commanding Officer, USS
Texas
(SSN 775)

Dr. Joanna Patterson, U.S. National Security Advisor

James Randall, Vice President of the United States

Captain Charles Simonis, SUBRON 15

Commander Richard Walker, SUBRON 15 Operations Officer

Robert Eldridge, U.S. Ambassador to India

People’s Republic of China Characters

Admiral Jing Fei, Commander, People’s Liberation Army Navy

Lieutenant/Major Li Shen, intelligence officer, People’s Liberation Army

General Shi We, Chinese Minister of National Defense

Lieutenant General Tian Ju, Commander, Hong Kong Garrison

Major General Yeng Gan, Chinese Defense Attaché to the United States

Xi Ping, Chinese Ambassador to the United States

Captain Zhang Bo, Commander, Hong Kong Garrison Naval Brigade

Russian Characters

Jascha Churkin, former Spetsnaz commando and Kirichenko’s deputy

Captain Yetim Sergievich Gribov, Master of the icebreaker
50 Years of Victory

Vice Admiral Ivan Loktev, Deputy Commander of the Russian Northern Fleet

Admiral Yuri Kirichenko, Russian Navy (Ret.), former Commander of the Russian Northern Fleet

Anton Kulik, former Russian naval officer and technician working on
Chakra
’s overhaul

Captain Mishin, Russian Naval Attaché to the United States

Evgeni Orlav, former Russian naval officer and technical expert on Russian nuclear weapons

Captain First Rank Aleksey Igorevich Petrov, Russian Navy (Ret.), former captain of Russian submarine
Severodvinsk

Arkady Vaslev, Russian Ambassador to the United States

Captain First Rank Viktor Zhikin, Commanding Officer of the 328th Expeditionary Rescue Squad

Valery Zykov, Russian diplomat and Washington station chief for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Indian Characters

Vice Admiral Badu Singh Dhankhar, Commander of the Eastern Fleet

Larraj Handa, President of India

Gopan Jadeja, Indian Foreign Minister

Vishnu Kumar, Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation

Captain Mitra, Supervisor of the Visakhapatnam Shipyard

Commander Fali Gandhi, Visakhapatnam Shipyard Weapons Engineer

Shankar Pathak, Indian Prime Minister

Captain Girish Samant, former Commanding Officer of the submarine
Chakra

Special Director Ijay Thapar, Deputy Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation

INS
Chakra

Commander Maahir Jain, Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Kumar Rakash, First Officer

Lieutenant Jal Kirit, Combat Systems Officer

Lieutenant Harish Kota, Navigator

Chief Petty Officer Patil, senior sonar rating

 

FORGE BOOKS BY
LARRY BOND

Dangerous Ground

Cold Choices

Exit Plan

Shattered Trident

Lash-Up

Fatal Thunder

 

FORGE BOOKS BY
LARRY BOND
AND JIM DEFELICE

Larry Bond’s First Team

Larry Bond’s First Team: Angels of Wrath

Larry Bond’s First Team: Fires of War

Larry Bond’s First Team: Soul of the Assassin

Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War

Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War

Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising: Shock of War

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Larry Bond
is the author of
Lash-Up, Shattered Trident,
and numerous
New York Times
bestselling thrillers, including
Cold Choices, Vortex, Cauldron,
and
The Enemy Within.
A former naval intelligence officer, warfare analyst, and antisubmarine technology expert, he makes his home in Springfield, Virginia. You can sign up for email updates
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Author’s Note

Prologue

1. Shock Wave

2. Chaos

3. Movements

4. Reasoning

5. Cascade

6. Rude Awakenings

7. Investigators

8. Arrivals

9. Fatal Encounter

10. Lawbreakers

11. Alarm Raised

12. Plan B

13. Sortie

14. Smoke and Mirrors

15. Unpleasant News

16. En Route

17. Confession

18. Pursuit

19. Flaming Datum

20. Evasion

21. Approaches

22. Endgame

23. Cleanup

Epilogue

Dramatis Personae

Forge Books by Larry Bond

About the Author

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

FATAL THUNDER

Copyright © 2016 by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Peter Bollinger

A Forge Book

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