Une explosion nucléaire dans la mer d'Arabie : 6000 morts et un porte-avions US volatilisé, le Thomas Jefferson de classe Nimitz, pourtant réputé indestructible.

Accident ?
Un homme, un seul, croit dur comme fer à l'attentat terroriste. Son nom : Bill Baldridge !

Commandant Baldridge. Spécialiste des sous-marins et frère d'un disparu, déterminé à faire justice, il réussit à convaincre les autorités.

La traque va commencer. Sur toutes les mers. Sur tous les continents. Infernale, sans pitié. Mobilisant tous les moyens technologiques les plus sophistiqués.

Une course-poursuite à laquelle aucun ennemi, même le plus rusé, ne devrait échapper. 

Suspense, action, technologie, géopolitique : un technothriller digne de tom Clancy.

Aujourd'hui, un fabuleux roman d'aventures et de guerre.
Bientôt, un grand film à la Octobre Rouge
Demain peut-être, la réalité...

Nimitz

Mack Bedford, officier du SEAL, commando d'élite de l'US Navy, a abattu douze jihadistes irakiens désarmés qui semblaient pourtant sur le point de se rendre. À sa décharge, Bedford avait vu quelques instants plus tôt quatre de ses camarades périr carbonisés dans des chars frappés par des missiles guidés Diamondhead, pourtant interdits par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies. Le Diamondhead transperce en effet les blindages les plus épais et sa tête, munie d'un gaz mortel, s'embrase quelques secondes après l'impact.Jugé en Cour martiale, Bedford est renvoyé de l'armée. De retour chez lui, il retrouve le train-train d'une ville de chantiers navals du Maine au bord de l'asphyxie, faute du renouvellement de commandes de l'État français. Il doit aussi faire face à l'évolution alarmante de la maladie génétique de son fils de sept ans, que seule une opération au-dessus de ses moyens pourrait sauver.Bedford est alors approché par le patron d'un chantier naval, qui lui propose un million de dollars pour éliminer le Français Henri Foch, responsable du déclin de sa ville. Cet industriel est de surcroît le fabricant des terribles Diamondhead, qu'il continue à écouler malgré l'interdiction... Et Foch n'est-il pas aussi cet homme aperçu en Irak, peu avant la mort de ses quatre compagnons d'arme ?Animé autant par la volonté de sauver son fils que par le désir de revanche, Bedford entend, à sa manière, rétablir une certaine justice... Mission doublement délicate : il doit désormais agir en solo alors que Foch, candidat à la présidentielle, est le favori des sondages pour devenir le futur hôte de l'Élysée...

Diamonhead, le missile de tous les dangers

Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force.  On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed to war with Argentina.  In these engrossing memoirs, Admiral Sandy Woodward, Task Force commander from the aircraft carrier Hermes, takes us from day one to day one hundred of the conflict; from sailing through the waters of the Atlantic with hopes of a political settlement fading, and war becoming increasingly likely, to the repulse of the Argentinian navy and the daring amphibious landing at San Carlos Water.  The war, which cost the lives of over 1,000 men, has left a legacy of many historical debates and controversies, from the sinking of ships such as HMS Coventry, HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, and the Argentinian cruiser, the Belgrano, to wider issues such as what was it like to command and fight a modern air and naval war, the biggest naval action since World War II.  ''One Hundred Days'' is unique as a dramatic portrayal of the world of modern naval warfare, where despite the use of sophisticated equipment and communications, the margins for human error and courage were as wide as they were in the days of Nelson.

ONE HUNDRED DAYS

HMS Unseen : le sous-marin le plus dangereux du monde.
On ne peut pas le voir. On ne peut pas l'entendre. Pourtant, il vient d'être détourné au large des côtes anglaises. Il est peut-être déjà aux mains de l'ennemi. Selon l'amiral Morgan, un seul homme est coupable. L'ennemi n° 1 : un terroriste à la solde de l'Iran et de l'Irak. L'agent le plus doué, mais aussi le plus redoutable. Des marais du Tigre aux Hébrides, il faut tout faire pour l'arrêter. Avant qu'il ne commette le pire.
Après " Nimitz " et " Le sous-marin de la dernière chance ", le nouveau grand techno-thriller de Patrick Robinson.

Menace invisible

Throughout the fifteenth century, China's blue-water navy fleets dominated all the oceans between the Yellow Sea and the Persian Gulf. But for the next five hundred years, it regressed to a dim echo of its glorious past. However, it is now the year 2007 and the Chinese agenda has changed. With a tremendous navy buildup, anchored by a new base in Burma and a $2 billion oil refinery on the southern Iranian coast, the Chinese are poised not only to challenge America's superiority on the open sea but also to upset the delicate balance of oil power in the Middle East and the free passage of the world's giant tankers.Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, is closely monitoring the Chinese when an oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. When it happens a second and then a third time, he knows it is no coincidence.... The Chinese navy, in partnership with Iran, has laid a minefield clean across the Strait of Hormuz, holding the world's oil supply hostage. As a global oil crisis ensues, the world financial markets spiral out of control. Mystified by China's motive yet drawn to action, the United States moves to disarm the mines with a huge display of force, deploying five Carrier Battle Groups, 80 percent of its active sea power.While the sweepers blow out the mines, Morgan characteristically slams back at China. Navy SEAL veteran commanders Rick Hunter and Rusty Bennett lead devastating attacks on China's Indian Ocean power bases. And at the center of the missions is USS Shark, a thirty-year-old nuclear boat on her final tour of duty, commanded by Donald Reid, an officer struggling with his inner demons. His executive officer is Lt. Commander Dan Headley, an intrepid Kentuckian, himself on his way to full command. When the brave SEALs are confronted with the unexpected death of their own, the unimaginable happens: the first mutiny in the modern history of the United States Navy.Meanwhile, the People's Liberation Navy sits and waits for their ultimate gambit, a move so shocking and unexpected that it forces the world to hold its breath. Was the minefield in the strait just a diversion?Featuring an ensemble cast that stretches from the most secretive heart of the Chinese high command to the control room of a U.S. submarine, out onto the screaming flight decks of the great aircraft carriers, all the way to a United States Navy court-martial, The Shark Mutiny is epic in its sweep, meticulous in its authenticity, and breathtaking in its pacing. Terrifying and thrilling, it is the most dramatic story of rebellion on the high seas since The Caine Mutiny.

Minuterie Sur Le Shark (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #5)

The H.M.S. Unseen is one of the most efficient, lethal submarines ever built. But suddenly, on a training mission off the English coast, it vanishes, baffling military intelligence on both sides of the Atlantic, including National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. A missing weapon is dangerous enough. But then the unthinkable begins to happen....Planes begin blowing up across the skies.Searching for answers, Morgan is convinced that only one man can be behind all these devastating events: his archenemy, the world's most cunning--yet reportedly dead--terrorist spy. Determined to stop his old nemesis, Morgan must use all his wits to find a madman armed with a powerful sub hidden somewhere in a million square miles of ocean. What Morgan doesn't know, however, is that the fanatical terrorist has a plan of his own, one that will bring these two intense warriors face-to-face--and only one will come out alive in one of the most chilling spy stories of the year.

Menace Invisible (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #3)

When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a devastating, new anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche. Mack suspects that Foche will succeed in his campaign to become the next French President, and fears that his election will result in the spread of international terrorism.In addition, Mack has a gravely ill son whose life can only be saved by an experimental and unaffordable foreign medical procedure. So when the town’s shipbuilding magnate asks Mack to help assassinate Henri Foche, Mack finds himself agreeing. His reward is a chance at survival for both his son and his hometown.

Diamondhead (Mack Bedford, #1)

The US Department of Defense is well aware of China's intention to shut the US Carrier Battle Groups out of the Taiwan Strait and then to reclaim, by military force if necessary, the rich independent island that sits only one hundred miles off China's eastern coastline. A strike force of patrolling Kilos could achieve that objective for Beijing, and two of the ten Kilos have already been delivered. Kilo Class is about US attempts to foil delivery of the other eight. The President's new National Security Adviser, the irascible Texas admiral Arnold Morgan, prepares to send the US Navy's deadliest Black Ops hit squads deep into dark Russian waters. Their missions are executed under the most crushing code of secrecy. One mistake could literally start World War III. The decision is sanctioned by the President of the United States. Now the world's three most powerful nations silently lock horns - Russia, determined to deliver the submarines to Shanghai for a payment of billions of dollars; China, determined to reclaim Taiwan by frightening off the US aircraft carriers; and the United States, brutally determined that those Kilos will never fly the flag of China above their bridges.

Nimitz

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