Preisler, Jerome

in 1997, Daniel Trush, a bright, active, outgoing twelve-year-old, collapsed on the basketball court and fell into a deep coma. When he was rushed to the hospital, tests showed he had had five previously undetected aneurysms in his brain. One caused a massive cerebral hemorrhage. While in a coma, the pressure inside his skull caused him to suffer multiple strokes and further tests showed his brain functions had flatlined. His chances for survival were slim to none and if he did survive, he'd likely remain in a vegetative state. But the doctors were wrong. Thirty days after lapsing into a coma, he returned to consciousness and two years later he took his first extraordinary steps out of a wheelchair. Eventually he would complete the New York Marathan. Daniel's family felt music had played a crucial role in his recovery so they launched Daniel's music Foundation, a nonprofit organization for people with disabilities.

Roger Gordian, owner of telecommunications company UpLink, resorts to a little corporate espionage to try and beat his biggest competitor, Armbright Industries, but when some of his own employees begin to disappear, Roger begins to suspect Armbright is trying to hide a deadly secret.

Africa has become the battleground of a 21st-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian, battles for control against his nemesis, Harlan DeVane, who trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states. DeVane kidnaps Gordian's daughter to ensure his success. Now Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before.

In the waning days of World War II, a historic and little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway and changed the course of the war. As the Germans were preparing for defeat, they packed a submarine (U-864) with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology, a group of German and Japanese scientists, and tons of mercury for use in missile and torpedo detonation systems. With this they felt Japan could re-establish air superiority in the Pacific giving Germany the time to regroup and defend the Fatherland. Unbeknownst to them, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered their plans and chased the U-864 throughout the North Atlantic. It evaded its pursuers and headed out to sea to complete its mission. But the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it and in an intense cat-and-mouse game beneath the waves, the Venturer won, sinking the U-864 and becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat.