The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving .

Ghost Force

In the hands of a navy, it brings instant credibility and respect.
  In the hands of a diabolical terrorist, it could launch unspeakable horror.
Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, meets his greatest enemy yet. He is a shadowy figure, a former high-ranking SAS officer who is both brilliant and determined -- and the new leader of the most vicious terrorist group in the Middle East. Sponsored by rogue nations, the man formerly known as Major Ray Kerman embarks on a breathtaking plan to acquire a nuclear submarine, train a crew, sail the Pacific ... and bring the United States to its knees.The submarine is Barracuda 945, the ultimate weapon. A jet-black Russian nuclear hunter-killer, it runs deep, and its silence and speed are fearsome. It can stay submerged indefinitely and can fire landattack guided missiles from below the surface. Invisible to any pursuer, it is nearly impossible to track in the thousands of square miles of ocean water.Morgan valiantly marshals America's forces, nearly helpless in the face of an 8,000-ton nemesis they cannot detect, a nightmare of modern warfare.Patrick Robinson takes you into the heart of international terrorism with an explosive blend of military suspense, cutting-edge technology, current events, and superb storytelling. With Barracuda 945, Robinson is at his very best.

Barracuda 945 (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #6)

Stupeur au Pentagone : le plus colossal porte-avions du monde, le Thomas Jefferson - une forteresse flottante de classe " Nimitz ", fer de lance de l'US Navy - a été détruit en haute mer par une explosion nucléaire, avec six mille hommes à son bord. Accident ? attentat ? Pour le commandant Baldridge, spécialiste des sous-marins et frère d'un officier disparu dans l'explosion, la seconde hypothèse est la bonne. Reste à en convaincre le Président et les chefs militaires. Et surtout à mettre la main sur les terroristes suffisamment équipés et formés pour accomplir l'impossible : franchir l'inexpugnable réseau de protection que ses avions, croiseurs, contre-torpilleurs et sous-marins associés déployaient autour du Thomas Jefferson... Avec ce formidable techno-thriller, le Britannique Patrick Robinson se classe d'emblée parmi les champions du genre, tels que Jack Higgins ou Tom Clancy.

Nimitz (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #1)

Les sous-marins russes de la classe " kilo " sont presque parfaits. Indécelables dès qu'ils sont en immersion. Idéal pour la Chine : lors d'une invasion de Taïwan, ils pourraient neutraliser toute intervention américaine. Dix exemplaires en provenance de la Russie sont sur le point d'être livrés. Il faut, à tout prix, empêcher cela. Le Columbia, sous-marin de l'US Navy, va intervenir. A son bord, le commandant Boomer Dunning. De la Volga au Pôle Nord, en passant par les îles Kerguelen, les missions d'interception se multiplient. Reste un sous-marin. C'est celui de la dernière chance. Et à ce jeu mortel, il n'y a qu'un gagnant.

Le sous-marin de la dernière chance

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)

En pleine nuit du mardi 28 juin 2005, un commando de Navy SEAL est infiltré au cœur de la province afghane de Kounar. Sa mission : capturer ou neutraliser un chef taliban ayant établi sa base arrière dans des montagnes particulièrement inhospitalières. L'après-midi même, les hommes tombent dans une embuscade menée par plus d'une centaine de combattants afghans. Pour Marcus Luttrell, seul rescapé américain de l'affrontement, blessé durant les combats et traqué par les talibans, il s'agit désormais de survivre. Pour cela, il ne peut compter que sur lui-même et sur l'entraînement impitoyable reçu tout au long de sa sélection pour les Navy Seal, sans imaginer un seul instant l'extraordinaire revirement que lui réserve le destin.

Le survivant

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)

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.

Ghost Force

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