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The hunt for Red October

(Mystery)
When a Soviet captain uses one of the fleet's most destructive yet valuable nuclear submarines as an escape vehicle, the United States and the Soviets race to stop the sub. The Soviets are ordered to find and destroy the renegades at any cost. But if the United States fleet can find the sub first and get her safely to port, it will be considered one of the highest intelligence achievements of all time.

Challenger Deep

2009
When an experimental nuclear submarine is marooned in a deposit of methane ice deep in the Marianas Trench, an elite team mounts a daring rescue to prevent an explosive chain reaction that could lead to global disaster.

Extreme submarines

2016
Readers learn the basics of submarine technology and how submarine crews live inside the machine.

Secrets of the dead

2012
Explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster.

America

a Jake Grafton novel
2001
As missiles are fired upon the White House, Rear Admiral Jake Grafton struggles to find a group of CIA agents believed to have hijacked the U.S.'s latest advance in nuclear submarines and foil their plans to destroy American power and influence throughout the world.

Submarine

a guided tour inside a nuclear warship
1993
An inside look at life aboard a Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear submarine, from captain to crew, from training exercises to operations. Includes profiles of other submarines.

Submarine

a guided tour inside a nuclear warship
2002
Exposes the inner workings of the nuclear submarine, the core of America's nuclear arsenal, using diagrams and photographs along with formerly top-secret information.

Spymasters

2013
Contains three adventure stories involving the Cahill family.

Goliath

2002
Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is shocked to learn that the plans for a nuclear submarine she helped design more than a decade earlier have fallen into the wrong hands and her own weapon is being used to try and destroy the world's most powerful countries.

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