![]() ![]() The shocking losses mean that Patch and his overmatched flotilla are the only American forces left in the Pacific to maintain the commercial quarantine. ![]() American Navy subs sink these unmanned craft, though not before they send almost all of the US surface ships, including an aircraft carrier, to the bottom. Tokyo soon dispatches a squadron of computer-controlled U-boats to deal with the blockade. The sneak attack angers America, which (under the leadership of its first woman president) decides to deny the home islands access to the foreign oil and raw materials that sustain them. In his fourth literary tour of duty, submariner Michael (Patch) Pacino (now a two-star admiral) matches wits and superweapons with Japan's underseas forces: a stunningly effective technopolitical thriller from DiMercurio (Phoenix Sub Zero, 1994, etc.) In the near postmillennial future, an impoverished but well- armed Japan (which has been shut out of consumer markets worldwide due to unfair trade practices) is panicked into a preemptive strike against Manchuria, a new state that emerged following the breakup of mainland China and the USSR. ![]()
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