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Authors: Rick Campbell

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T
OM
B
RADNER
, Sonar Division Petty Officer

11TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE

A
L
K
ENT (
S
ERGEANT)
, 11th Air Defense Staff

B
RUCE
C
HERRY (
C
ORPORAL)
, 11th Air Defense Staff

J
ON
D
EWIRE (
M
AJOR)
, Commanding Officer, Alpha Battery, 4th Regiment (THAAD)

EAGLE-FIVE-ZERO (P-3C AIR CREW)

S
COTT
G
RAEF (
L
IEUTENANT
C
OMMANDER)
, Tactical Coordinator

P
ETE
B
URWELL (
L
IEUTENANT)
, Communicator

WHIDBEY ISLAND NOPF

A
L
C
ULVER
, Watchstander

F
RED
H
ARMON
, Maintenance Technician

OTHER CHARACTERS—NAVAL OFFICERS

A
DMIRAL
T
IM
H
ALE
, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (referenced only)

A
DMIRAL
D
ENIS
H
ERRELL
, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Referenced Only)

C
OMMODORE
R
ICK
L
OWE
, Australian Submarine Fleet Element Group Commander

C
OMMANDER
J
OE
C
ASEY
, PCO aboard USS
HOUSTON

C
OMMANDER
D
OUG
B
ATES
, PCO aboard USS
HOUSTON

OTHER CHARACTERS—CIVILIANS

D
ANA
C
OOKE
, Landover Engineering Systems employee

C
LAIRE
W
ILSON
, Murray Wilson’s wife

N
ANCY
W
ILSON
, Tom Wilson’s wife (referenced only)

T
HERESA
P
ATTON
, Mike Patton’s wife (referenced only)

S
ARAH
R
OSENFELD
, Levi Rosenfeld’s daughter

R
ACHEL
R
OSENFELD
, Levi Rosenfeld’s daughter

K
ATHERINE
J
ANKOWSKI
, mother with infant at Sandrino’s Café

K
HALID
A
BDULLA
, suicide bomber

C
INDY
C
OREY
, pleasure craft sunbather

R
ANDY
C
OREY
, pleasure craft fisherman

M
ICHIYA
A
OCHI
, fisherman on
Daisan Shinsho-Maru

D
OREEN
C
ORNELLIER
, Channel 9 News reporter

R
ICK
L
ARSON
, FBI Director (referenced only)

K
EN
R
ONAN
, CIA Director (referenced only)

J
OHN
K
ENNEY
, CIA Agent

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I hope you enjoyed reading
The Trident Deception.

I tried to make it as realistic as possible considering the constraints. In particular, no classified information could be revealed, which required me to alter some capabilities of ships and weapons employed in the novel (speed and range, for example), which I’m sure some of you have detected and have no doubt exclaimed, “That’s not right!” You are correct. If they were accurate, this novel would be classified, so I had to “tweak” a few things.

Also, some of the tactics employed by the submarine crews were generic and also not accurate. For example, torpedo employment and torpedo evasion tactics are classified and could not be accurately represented in this novel. Finally, some of the submarine terminology and dialog isn’t right either. If they were completely correct, some it would be unintelligible due to the acronyms, and I’d have to stop frequently to explain, and the story would lurch along. So I compromised on some of the dialogue and on some of the “accuracy” of the scenes, in order to keep the story flowing smoothly along.

For all of the above, I apologize. I did my best to keep everything as close to real life without making it classified or bogging it down with acronyms or terminology too difficult or time-consuming to explain. Hopefully it all worked out and it came together into a suspenseful, page-turning novel.

Thanks for your time and I hope we get a chance to meet some day. And of course—I hope you liked
The Trident Deception
enough to buy the sequel,
Empire Rising.
Thanks again!

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RICK CAMPBELL, a retired Navy Commander, spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours, finishing his career with the Naval Operations staff in the Pentagon and in the Washington Navy Yard. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine’s nuclear warhead–tipped missiles. Rick lives with his wife and three children in the greater Washington, D.C., area.
The Trident Deception
is his first novel and he is currently working on the sequel.

 

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.

THE TRIDENT DECEPTION
. Copyright © 2014 by Rick Campbell. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by Young Jin Lim

Cover photo-illustration by Steve Gardner/Pixelworks Studios, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Campbell, Rick.

     The trident deception / Rick Campbell. — First Edition.

          p.  cm.

     ISBN 978-1-250-03901-9 (hardcover)

     ISBN 978-1-250-03900-2 (e-book)

     1.  Kentucky (Ship) — Fiction.   2.  Submarines (Ships) — Fiction.   I.  Title.

     PS3603.A48223T75 2014

     813'.6—dc23

2013031934

e-ISBN 9781250039002

First Edition: March 2014

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