Book Review for

Torpedo

by Jeff Edwards

This is a modern-day, action-packed, thriller that engages you from cover
to cover. There is an accident at a German nuclear plant and a biological
warfare attack at the British embassy in Washington, D.C. The United States
 discovers that the German government is delivering illegal nuclear weapons
to a rogue Middle Eastern state using four submarines. In order to preempt
war between Britain and Germany, Commander Jim Bowie and the crew of
USS Towers and a handful of other destroyers must intercept and destroy
the submarines before they reach the Middle East. One of the difficulties of
this mission is that the commander of the enemy wolfpack is trained in
U.S. naval warfare tactics and therefore can predict the U.S. destroyers'
every move. Commander Bowie must out-think his enemy with
unconventional strategy.

The author is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and an Anti-Submarine
Warfare Specialist with 23 years experience in chasing Soviet submarines
during the Cold War to launching cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf.


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