Nimitz Class (53 page)

Credits

Illustrations by ML Design

Cover design by Gene Mydlowski and Richard Hasselberger

Cover illustration © 1997 by Danilo Ducek

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Nimitz Class
is a work of fiction set in the near future. The premise of the novel and descriptions of naval operations and protocol are grounded in fact. However, certain liberties have been taken in the interest of creating a compelling narrative.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers.

NIMITZ CLASS
. Copyright © 1997 by Patrick Robinson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Perfect bound™.

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Microsoft Reader August 2003 eISBN 0-06-059306-7

First Perennial edition published 2003.

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