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First published in the United States of America by St. Martin’s Press 2009
First published in Great Britain as an electronic edition by Penguin Books 2013
Copyright © David Lynn Golemon, 2009
Cover: Symbol by Lee Gibbons, Photograph © Alamy
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The moral right of the author has been asserted
ISBN: 978-1-405-91201-3
Prologue
Part One: DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Part Two: THE SEA CHASE
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Part Three: THE BLACK QUEEN
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Part Four: FROM HELL’S HEART
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
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The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
—Jules Verne,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
For Jules Verne and all of the other
dreamers that followed.
For Brandon, Katie, Shaune, and Tram—
the children who supply my energy.
To the United States Navy—the cooperation received from some nameless individuals was invaluable.
To the kind folks at General Dynamics—without their valuable insight into the future of submarines, this book could not have been written.
For Nicole Verdone and many, many others who keep this author grounded in reality.