UP Periscope!:
Submarine Adventures

Robert Ballard & Tony Chiu
Bright Shark. Delacorte, 1992.
Thirty-eight nautical miles off Crete, an American research ship, Fanning II, is conducting a geophysical study when it comes upon what may be the wreckage of Dakar, an Israeli submarine that vanished in 1968. Washington wants to recover the sunken sub's secret cargo. Israel, on the other hand, is determined to keep the cargo forever concealed -- even if it means destroying the American ship along with it.

Ted Bell
Hawke. Atria, 2003.
While working on a secret mission for the Americans trying to locate an armed Soviet stealth submarine lost at the end of the Cold War, British agent Alexander Hawke discovers that an unspeakable horror he witnessed in his youth has come back to claim him.

Larry Bond
Dangerous Ground. Forge, 2005.
On her final mission, the aging US submarine Memphis is dispatched on a secret mission to locate suspected leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. But lurking beneath the frigid, black, radioactive waters is a secret far more deadly than anything naval command could imagine--a secret so menacing that the Russians are determined to do anything to prevent it coming to light.

Joe Buff
Deep Sound Channel. Bantam, 2000.
In the year 2011, an alliance between South Africa and Germany turns the Atlantic into a nuclear battleground. Lt. Commander Jeffrey Fuller and the crew of the stealth nuclear submarine USS Challenger are called in to help. Together with a team of Navy SEALs and Boer freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck, Fuller must infiltrate the enemy coast and attack a compound where scientists are putting together the ultimate biological weapon. Followed by: Thunder in the Deep (2001), Crush Depth (2002) & Tidal Rip (2003), Straights of Power (2005)

M. Scott Carpenter
The Steel Albatross. Pocket, 1991.
After yet another scandalous incident, Rick Tallman, a renegade from the Navy Top Gun School accepts a last-ditch effort to salvage his career and begins training with the Navy SEALs. Then he is given command of Steel Albatross, a prototype SA-1a submarine that works like a glider and is undetectable to enemy sonar. And when the Soviets prepare to activate a secret underwater power plant that could knock out every computer in the U.S., rendering defense systems inoperable, Tallman's unproven submarine is the country's only hope. Followed by: Deep Flight (1994)

Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October. Naval Institute Press, 1984.
When the commander of Russia's newest high-tech submarine and his officers decide to defect with the vessel to the Unites States, the race to find the Red October is on.

SSN Berkeley, 1996.
China invades the oil-rich Spratly Islands, bringing a swift retribution from the United States--and the start of WWIII. A nuclear sub is dispatched to protect a carrier group, but its mission changes as the situation explodes into full-scale war.

R. Cameron Cooke
Pride Runs Deep. Jove, 2005.
As the U.S. attempts to rebuild its fleet following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the badly damaged Submarine Division Seven holds the line against the Japanese Navy. Lt. Commander Jack Tremain patrols in sea vowing to make the enemy pay for the American lives that were lost--even if it means this is his last mission. By the same author: Rise to Victory (2006); Sink the Shigure (2007).

Stephen Coonts
America. St. Martin's, 2001.
Read Admiral Jack Grafton must track down & destroy the world's most technologically advanced nuclear submarine--which is now in the hands of terrorists.

Michael DiMercurio
Maverick daredevil Captain (later Admiral) Michael "Patch" Pacino is the hero of these action-packed stories of advanced weaponry and international intrigue.

Voyage of the Devilfish. Fine, 1992.
Attack of the Seawolf. Fine, 1993.
Phoenix Sub Zero. Fine, 1994.
Barracuda Final Bearing. Fine, 1996.
Piranha Firing Point. Onyx, 1999.
Threat Vector. Onyx, 2000.
Terminal Run. Onyx, 2002.

By the same author:

Emergency Deep. NAL, 2004.
Vertical Dive. NAL, 2005.

Sean Flannery
Winner Take All. Forge, 1994.
The Cold War is over. The U.S. and Russia are preparing a high-tech war game called "Operation Pit Bull. But conspirators plot to sabotage the games and provoke nuclear war. On the eve of the mock battle a U.S. ship is sunk by a Russian rogue sub and other renegade subs are sneaking toward Operation Pit Bull, while saboteurs infiltrate the U.S. fleet and reprogram systems to fire armed missiles.

Achilles' Heel. Forge, 1998.
A Russian sub is supposed to lie scuttled in the Barents Sea which serves as Moscow's graveyard for nuclear reactors. But MI analyst Bill Lane suspects that the sub has not sunk at all as he follows a trail of anomalies.

James Francis
Danger's Hour. Onyx, 2002.
While an international team of rescuers rush to the aid of a crippled sub lying on the ocean floor, the sub's captain struggles to maintain order as life-support systems being to fail.

Paul Garrison
Red Sky at Morning. Avon, 2000.
During Fleet Week in NYC, a rogue armada of Chinese attack subs prepare to strike.

John J. Gobbell
The Neptune Strategy. St. Martin's, 2004.
WWII Destroyer commander Todd Ingram survives the sinking of his ship but the submarine that rescues him is Japanese and Ingram finds himself a prisoner of war. A complex cat-and-mouse hunt commences as the US Navy attempts to save one of its own..

S. M. Gunn
SEALS Sub Rescue: Operation Endurance. Avon, 2002.
After rescuing a defecting Russian scientist, a SEALs team is then dispatched to an ice-covered island to thwart the construction of deadly biological weapons. Followed by: SEALS Sub Strike: Operation Ocean Watch (2003) & SEALS Sub Strike: Operation Black Snow (2004), Operation Emerald Red (2005).

Richard P. Henrick
Crimson Tide. Avon, 1995.
The captain of a nuclear submarine and his second-in-command clash over an unconcluded, garbled radio transmission that may or may not be an order to fire their missiles at Russia.

Homer Hickam
The Keeper's Son. T. Dunne, 2003.
A ruthless U-Boat commander planning an attack against the North Carolina coast may hold the key to the mystery that has plagued Coast Guard commander Josh Thurlow for 17 years: what befell his younger brother when he was lost at sea.

Jack Higgins
Thunder Point. Putnam, 1993.
Irish terrorist Sean Dillon agrees to help the British government find a sunken German U-boat in which Martin Borman supposedly made his escape. On board are two briefcases full of documents incriminating numerous British officials for their Nazi ties.

Harry Homewood
Final Harbor. McGraw-Hill, 1980.
A story of the lives and loves of the crew of the USS Mako as it plays a deadly game of hide and seek with the Japanese Empire in the Pacific during the second World War.

Torpedo! McGraw-Hill, 1982.
When the USS Sharkfin is destroyed by a torpedo the only conclusion is that the Soviets had attacked without warning. Vice Admiral Mike Brannon must decide whether to retaliate before or after informing the President.

R. Karl Largent
The Sea. Leisure, 1999.
For more than a half century a sunken German U-boat filled with Nazi gold has remained hidden in the depths of the Sargasso Sea. But there are deadly secrets as well, as Elliott Wages is about to learn.

Philip McCutchan
The Last Farewell. St. Martin's, 1991.
Without a protective escort, Capt. Pacey must guide his ship through treacherous waters on its final voyage from New York to England in 1915. The U-boat commander stalking her has his problems, too.

David E. Meadows
Final Run. Berkley, 2008.
During the Cold War Capt. Chad Shipley of the USS Squallfish is ordered to infiltrate the heart of the Soviet Northern Fleet to spy upon the enemy’s nuclear sub capabilities.What he doesn't know is that the Soviets already have a nuclear sub under way, and he becomes its first target.

Benjamin Miller
Silent Assault. NAL, 2005.
While operatin gunder strict orders to maintain stealth, the crew members of the USS Ohio start to die from an outbreak of a mysterious plague. Meanwhile, an unseen enemy lies in wait to seize its nuclear weapons. But the survivors are not ready to gove up the sub.

C. A. Mobley
Rites of War. Jove, 1998.
The sudden rise of a new Germany in the post-cold War threatens to trigger World War III when a U-Boat destroys a North Korean submarine and attacks a U.S. Command ship. It is up to Commander Jerusha Bailey to go one-on-one with the brilliant skipper of the U-Boat to prevent a global catastrophe. Followed by: Rules of Command (1998)

C. W. Morton
Sea Trials. Thos. Dunne, 1999.
The murder of an ensign is the least of the problems facing Special Agent Bud Wilson of the Naval Criminal Service and the crew of the USS Nashville as the submarine plummets to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Douglas Reeman
His Majesty's U-Boat (aka Go In and Sink!). Putnam, 1973.
A British crew in a German submarine must slip through the Allied sub-destroyers to "join" the enemy fleet.

Strike From the Sea. Morrow, 1978.
Cruising somewhere off Saigon in 1941 is the world's most dangerous submarine and the British navy must capture her for themselves before she is used against them by the enemy.

H. Jay Riker
The Silent Service: Grayback Class. Avon, 2000.
In 1985 the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are locked in a lethal race of arms and technology. Reports have been received about a devastating new Soviet weapon--a prototype attack submarine far more advanced than anything in the U.S. fleet. America's only hope is a nearly obsolete submarine and a platoon of Navy SEALs. The Silent Service: Seawolf Class (2002) & The Silent Service: Virginia Class (2004).

Patrick Robinson
Nimitz Class. HarperCollins, 1997.
After the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Thomas Jefferson and its escort is secretly attacked and destroyed, the loss is first thought to be a horrendous accident, but Lt. Commander Bill Baldridge convinces the president that the ship was attacked by a submarine with a nuclear-tipped torpedo. First title if the "U.S. navy Series." Followed by Kilo Class (1998), H.M.S. Unseen (1999), U.S.S. Seawolf (2000), The Shark Mutiny (2001), Barracuda 945 (2003), Scimitar Sl-2 (2004), Hunter Killer (2005) & To the Death (2007).

James Rollins
Ice Hunt. Morrow, 2003.
When an American deep-sea research team operating beneath the Artic circle discovers that there is something alive inside Ice Station Grendel--a supposedly long-abadoned Soviet facility--scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into a dark mystery that could end human life on Earth.

Jeff Rovin
Tempest Down . St. Martin's Griffin, 2004.
When an experimental US submarine collides with a Chinese submarine sent to observe it, both are trapped under the Antarctic ice and must cooperate to survive.

Neville Shute
On the Beach. Morrow, 1957.
A nuclear holocaust leaves all the people in the world dead except those in Australia and on board a submarine which probes the southern Pacific for the approaching radiation cloud. When a signal is detected emanating from the coast of California, the sub is sent to investigate.

Peter Sasgen
War Plan Red. Pocket, 2004.
After American Navy commander Jake Scott uncovers a conspiracy intended to target a tense summit meeting of the American and Russian presidents, he takes the hlem of a Russian sub in the hopes of preventing a nuclear strike that could ignite World War III.

Charles D. Taylor
Deep Sting. Pocket, 1991.
While the two superpowers are relaxing under the spirit of glasnost, Nicholas Koniev, a Soviet-trained strategic and technical genius is leading a near-suicidal mission into the American submarine base of Bangor, Washington, home of the Trident missile subs. But Commander Bernie Ryng, a legendary Navy SEAL has brought his crack security team to foil the plot.

Craig Thomas
Sea Leopard. Viking, 1981.
"Sea Leopard," a secret anti-sonar device that can render a submarine virtually undetectable, is being tested on board the pride of the British nuclear fleet, the HMS Proteus. When the Russian navy succeeds in luring Proteus into a trap off the coast of Norway a dire and fateful contest is set into motion.

Peter Tonkin
Titan 10 . Severn, 2004.
After the crew of a submarine mysteriously disappears in the Berents Sea, the captain of an oil tanker sent to rendezvous with it decides to retrace the doomed sub's route and gets more than he bargained for.

Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 1870.
Three men in search of a giant sea monster discover it to be a submarine piloted by the mysterious and driven Capt. Nemo. Followed by The Mysterious Island.

Robin White
Typhoon. Putnam's 2003.
Its advanced technology vs. good old-fashioned cunning as an American sub & a Russian Typhoon carrying a full load of nuclear warhaeads play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Steven M. Wilson
Voyage of the Gray Wolves. Kensington, 2004.
Germany's most skillful U-boat captain takes a radical new submarine on a desperate mission to the shores of England to save his homeland from utter defeat. However, this attempt unleashes a nightmare unlike anything in the annals of war. By the same author: Between the Hunters and the Hunted (2005).

John Wingate
Submarine. Harper, 1986.
An outdated "expendable" diesel submarine, Orcus, is dispatched on a near-suicidal mission in Soviet waters to enable her sister sub, Safari, to find an attack a giant enemy underwater battleship eight times its size. Julian Farge, Orcus's hand-picked captain, stakes his life, his crew, and the future of the Atlantic alliance on the success of the Safari's skipper-a one-time friend who once took from him a lover he cannot forget.

Stuart Woods
Deep Lie. Norton, 1986.
Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Katherine Rule discovers a chilling pattern and an ultra-secret submarine base from which a carefully planned invasion is about to be launched. But no one believes her findings.

FEED YOUR NEED TO READ

Thomas Parrish. The Submarine: A History. Viking, 2004.[359.9383 Parrish]

Dan Van der Vat. Stealth at Sea: The History of the Submarine. HM, 1995. [359.9309 Van der Vat]

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