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“Compelling and visionary. DiMercurio’s characters run as deep as his submarines themselves!”
--Joe Buff, author of Crush Depth and Thunder in the Deep
"DiMercurio really knows his subs...his characters step right off the sub deck and onto his pages."
--Larry Bond
"A Master Rivaling Tom Clancy."
--Publishers Weekly
"Terrific."
--San Francisco Examiner
"Thrilling."
--Associated Press

"Superb storytelling."
--Virginia-Pilot/Ledger Star

	*Vertical Dive* First in an electrifying new series from “A MASTER RIVALING TOM CLANCY.” --Publishers Weekly EMERGENCY // EMERGENCY // SSBN HIJACKED // CMDR J. GARDES SENDS As hurricane Helen barrels in toward the Virginia coastline, the U.S. Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet orders all vessels to scramble to sea, including Burke Dillinger’s Hampton and Peter Vornado’s Texas. But this is no mere storm evacuation. There is something sinister going on in the eastern Atlantic. The Navy’s eyes are on the ballistic missile submarine force, the “boomer” submarines loaded to the gills with intercontinental nuclear warheads. And the French boomer submarine Le Vigilant has “gone bad,” hijacked by an Algerian terrorist with dreams of completing the circle of revenge and using French nuclear weapons on the French who killed his father. As terrorist Issam Zauabri’s forces learn how to employ the nuclear missiles, Vornado’s Texas and Dillinger’s Hampton close in on the threat, but Issam knows how to use torpedoes as well as he does the missiles, and Le Vigilant is one of the quietest submarines ever built. Once the American subs are on the bottom, his attack can proceed on Paris, but since it was Americans who interfered, Issam will save one missile for New York… EMERGENCY // EMERGENCY // SSBN HIJACKED // CMDR J. GARDES SENDS
	*Emergency Deep* First in an electrifying new series from “A MASTER RIVALING TOM CLANCY.” --Publishers Weekly U.S. Navy submarine commander Peter Vornado is at the top of his game in underwater warfare when a devastating illness takes him out of the service and almost to the grave. Without duty, honor, or something to fight for, his life is as good as over. But the CIA needs a man like Vornado… A terrorist cabal has acquired a scrapped Soviet sub from the Cold War -- a technologically advanced failure still able to outrun any torpedo or enemy vessel and strike at will. With a nuclear payload, it will enable them to strike directly at Israeland throw the world into chaos. All that remains is to modernize the sub with the latest technology. Only one man can infiltrate the group, take the helm, and stop a holocaust -- a man who has already stared down death, and is ready to do battle once more… “Compelling and visionary. DiMercurio’s characters run as deep as his submarines themselves!” --Joe Buff, author of Straits of Power and Tidal Rip
	*THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO SUBMARINES* by Michael DiMercurio and Michael Benson Welcome to your tour of a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy nuclear submarine. You are standing on Pier 22 of Norfolk Naval Station in the Tidewater section of the state of Virginia. The pier is a long jetty of concrete, stretching westward into the Elizabeth River from the high security checkpoint next to the towering structure of the haze-gray tender ship. Your destination is the end of the pier, where the sole in-port submarine of Submarine Squadron 8 is tied up -- all the other units of the squadron are already deployed at sea. The USS Hampton, SSN-767, is preparing to get underway for a rapid-deployment exercise, and you are lucky enough to be sailing with the crew.
	*Terminal Run* The explosive new techno-thriller from former submarine officer Michael DiMercurio. One ship could revolutionize submarine warfare as we know it: the USS Snarc. A robotic combat sub carrying no crew, the Snarc has proven unbeatable in sea trials. And now, it has fallen into the hands of an unseen enemy. The Snarc’s first casualty: the nuclear sub carrying the son of retired Admiral Michael Pacino. The only man who can match wits with the Snarc, Pacino re-enters the game in a high-tech underwater battle unlike any that’s been fought before, one that could engulf the world in war—and bring him face to face with his most hated nemesis…
	*Threat Vector* The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Pacino, plans a stand-down retreat for the senior officers of the U.S. Navy. Eighty miles out of Port Norfolk their cruise ship Princess Dragon is torpedoed by an unknown military terrorist. The SSNX submarine, the winner of the War of the East China Sea, sets out to find the submarine intruder, only to be put on the bottom. It is up to Commander Kelly McKee and the newest Virginia-class submarine in the fleet to find the attacking submarine and destroy it, but the Ukrainian submarine Vepr, under the control of war criminal Alexi Novskoyy, has other plans.
	*Piranha: Firing Point* Red China's ambush of breakaway White China could only be accomplished using a fleet of hijacked Japanese Rising Sun-class nuclear submarines, the best in the world. The sinking of the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force kicks off the War of the East China Sea, and the President turns to Vice Admiral Michael Pacino to win the counterattack. Pacino has no choice but to take the untested SSNX submarine to sea on a mission certain to fail.
	*Barracuda Final Bearing* When Japan attacks the new state of Greater Manchuria with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. responds with Operation Enlightened Curtain, a blockade around the Home Islands that the Japanese easily break with the highest technology submarine force ever built. The President gives Rear Admiral Michael Pacino the impossible mission of using his underdog submarine fleet to turn the tide of the war, and Pacino leads the force into the war zone aboard the Barracuda.
	*Phoenix Sub Zero* World War III breaks out between the United Islamic Front of God and the Western Coalition, and the Sword of Islam calls on the Japanese-technology supersub Hegira to deliver a new weapon to turn the course of a losing war. With the USS Augusta down and the Phoenix missing, Captain Michael Pacino is given the suicide mission of taking the USS Seawolf to sea and stop the Islamic submarine before it can unleash death on Washington.
	*Attack Of the Seawolf* Captain Michael Pacino is brought back to command the USS Seawolf on a desperate secret rescue mission during the Chinese Civil War when the Red Chinese capture the spying submarine Tampa in the Bo Hai Bay outside Beijing. While the SEAL commandos prepare to board the Tampa the Red Chinese Northern Fleet closes in, leaving Pacino no option but surrender.
	*Voyage of the Devilfish* VOYAGE OF THE DEVILFISH is now out as a "director's cut," with over twenty pages from the original manuscript -- unfortunately cut in the first version -- restored, and an update to present day! Thanks go out to cover artist at Penguin Putnam, Rich Hasselberger, who worked overtime making this fantastic cover! Commander Michael Pacino is ordered on a mission of revenge to sink his father's killer, Admiral Alexi Novskoyy, who is aboard the Russian supersub Omega under the polar icecap about to deliver a surgical strike on the United States. The Russian Magnum nuclear torpedo dooms Pacino's USS Devilfish, which is trapped under thick polar ice and sinking fast.