Rescue at Hiroshima: Air and Sea Submarine Adventure Thriler (Nevada Navy Ocean Combat Rescue Book 3)
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De Gama pitches the suicide order overboard. The adrenalin rush leaves him breathless, and he could refuse the order, but this rescue could be the one tiny candle of hope in the endless night of US-Japan annihilation. The suicide message: chance your boat and crew against the clock of a 5,000-degree fireball to extract schoolchildren from Ground Zero at Hiroshima.
With this advanced-technology sub and heliplane, he would bet his life. But would his crew also bet their lives on this hastily planned Hail Mary against the atomic bomb?
Gripping the wet, black steel of the sub’s splinter shield, he wonders if he can save them all or will they vanish as ghosts in the nuclear wind?
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First Edition Review
Enjoyable and Exciting WW2 Fiction Verified Purchase It's very appropriate that someone would write a novel about Hiroshima on the anniversary of the atomic bomb drop. Rescue at Hiroshima has a compelling premise: rescuing schoolchildren from nuclear annihilation. This book is immersive in its perspectives from many sides of the war, some real, some fictional; Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and the author's invention of a crew of a `Nevada Navy' submarine. Against the backdrop of the ticking clock for Enola Gay to drop the bomb, Smith develops two relationships, one between Jesse Rivera, a Nevada Marine and Shoney "Squeeze" O'Brien, a Nevada aviator; the other between two teen midshipmen, Mark Mason and Starla Gutierez. Smith creates an exciting tension with the ticking clock. He does well with the flying, submarine and battle sequences. He does well with the relationships, and the dialog between characters is snappy and enjoyable. He has inserted a fair bit of history and background, both for the real event and also his fictional Nevada Navy. But he may have a bit much in terms of the technical description of things. Yes, it adds to the realism---sort of like Michael Crichton's books--but he could have left out some of the technical with no harm to the story. If you let the physics flow past you, then it is a highly enjoyable read . Finally, unique to action-thriller novels, he does have some diagrams and a few pictures, which certainly helps in the more complex scenes. Recommended if you like Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, Michael Crichton, Larry Bond and Michael DiMercurio. -----Mnemosyne
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I am a former cold warrior, engineer and inventor. I have specialized in electrical engineering and have patents on various electromagnetic thing-o’s. I have designed spacecraft antenna parts for satellites now in orbit looking at you. And for the Galileo Jupiter Probe, now melted into the Jovian troposphere, swirling in the 60-km deep clouds and 300-knot helium winds. I have tales of three-letter agencies, polygraphs, spy scandals—-even a real murder—- and designing spacecraft components for secret missions. I live with my family not far from Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
