[Bill Nichols]

Previous Nuclear Submarine Commanding Officer Becomes Author

Captain L.S. Wigley, USN (Retired) has written his first novel "Mission Complete" which has been published by Publish America. The novel is fiction but could be a true story. The story revolves around terrorist takeover of a U.S. nuclear attack submarine.

(PRWEB) October 23, 2005 -- Commander Bruce Stewart, the commanding officer of the USS Jackfish (SSN945), attends a highly classified conference where it is revealed that an ultimatum was delivered to the President of the United States from a Soviet/Cuban terrorist group demanding a ransom of money plus the disarmament of the United States strategic nuclear weapons arsenal. The ultimatum would be met or the terrorist would launch nuclear cruise missiles from the pirated United States nuclear submarine Tigerfish in five days, Christmas Eve. The missiles would annihilate the cities of Norfolk, Washington, New York, and Groton, Connecticuit.

The Tigerfish had been pirated while at anchor off Piraeus, Greece, the victim of a well executed plan by an integrated Soviet/Cuban team. The submarine was still operated by its American crew who were at present receiving torture and brutality under the guns of the Soviet and Cuban guards.

The options available to the President are to conduct a nuclear preemptive first strike, to honoe the ultimatum, or to dispatch Commander Stewart to seek out and sink the Tigerfish.

The President gambles at his best option- Stewart and the Jackfish.

Captain Wigley, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, spent twenty-nine years on active duty with most of that time associated with nuclear submarines, including command of a nuclear attack submarine for over four years, command of the submarine repair ship in the Holy Loch, Scotland, and command of the construction and subsequent operation of the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, Washington. This background provided him the knowledge and operational experience to capture all the details necessary to write a best seller.


http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/10/prweb301258.htm

[bradclark1]

I think it's just too plain hard to come up with a good idea for a submarine novel. Hence, the same old crap.
As good as Dangerous Ground was the plot was still a little far fetched. Would a president put a submarine in harms way to get some sample bottles filled?
I've tried thinking of a good plot for a sub novel and just can't do it.

[wild bill]

This is the same theme used by Robinson in his books" HMS UNSEEN" & "USS Seawolf". I enjoyed the former but not the later.

wild bill

[Oberon]

[jason10mm]

I think the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war really put a dampner on almost the entire "technothriller" genre. Now everything is "rogue subs" or "spec-ops covert black ops" stuff. Big armored clashes like Fulda Gap scenarios or sea battles like red Storm Rising are all but gone. Perhaps it is the dearth of good new writers or the atrophy of the old ones or the explosion of autobiographies and true stories coming out. Or maybe with a real war on, our appetite for fictional conflict has waned. Or perhaps I just don't look hard enough in the corners of the used bookstores and online