New Releases by Patrick Robinson

Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III--a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can''t let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. But then the unthinkable happens: Seawolf, collides with a Chinese destroyer and falls into enemy hands. A team of cunning Navy SEALs--the biggest Special Forces assault group assembled since Vietnam--is sent in to free the captive Seawolf, crew and bring them home. The American Eagle confronts the Chinese Dragon with the balance of world power on the line. Failure is not an option...

It''s one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built—and it''s about to set off World War III. Silent at less than five knots and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch, it''s the 240-foot Russian Kilo Class submarine. Strapped for hard cash, the Russians have produced ten new Kilos for Beijing. The Chinese have already received three of the subs and now the last seven are ready to be delivered—a code-red situation the Pentagon must avert. Armed with a full strike force of Kilos, China can cripple American interests, shatter the balance of power, and successfully achieve the unthinkable in the Pacific Rim. But not if the newly appointed National Security Adviser, wily Texas admiral Arnold Morgan, can stop them—using the navy''s deadliest covert forces. In a breathtaking race against time, a team of Navy SEALs penetrates deep inside the remote waters of northern Russia on a daring mission of destruction. And in the icy darkness of the North Atlantic, a brave U.S. captain takes his 7,000-ton nuclear vessel on a hair-raising trip beneath the polar ice cap to head off a powerful Russian cordon determined to transport the Kilos at any cost. Horns locked in a tense game of geomilitary survival, each of the world'' three most powerful nations knows that one mistake will mean all-out war.

Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off theNew England coast, the nation''s best college players gatherto play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid''s celebrity status and decides to knock him down a peg or two. And he stops at nothing to make it happen. Humiliated, Jack loses his lifelong art, and with it his passion for the game, as well as, mysteriously, his ability to throw. A devastated Jack Faber is released from the St. Charles College roster. But the Seawolves coaches won''t give up on him. They bring Jack back to Cape Marlin, determined to help him rediscover his lost talent. He finds himself again under the summer sun, coaches and old friends standing by him. But in the end it will be up to Jack. Based on a true story, Slider celebrates the national pastime, a game that can break grown men''s hearts -- as well as make them whole again.

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.

The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving . . . . . . and Argentina, with Russia''s help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years—unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship-killing torpedoes. America cannot sit idle as hell explodes in the South Atlantic and, under the stern eye of Admiral Arnold Morgan, the military''s most powerful weapon is unleashed to hammer Argentina into submission: the U.S. Navy SEALs. The outcome of the unforeseen war that''s igniting in America''s backyard ultimately depends upon her awesome "ghost force” and their successful execution of two remarkable clandestine missions—while the consequences of failure may be too terrible to consider.

China baut seine Seemacht systematisch aus und Taiwan fühlt sich zunehmend bedroht. Der amerikanische Admiral Arnold Morgan muss handeln - Er schickt sein modernstes Atom-U-Boot, die U.S.S. Seawolf, zur Aufklärung in die gefährlichen Gewässer. Ein riskant

Green Bay is a Lake Michigan resource of national significance that is severely impacted by phosphorus and sediment export from the Lower Fox River Basin. This project will provide an important opportunity to build upon and leverage past work related to the delivery of phosphorus and sediment from agricultural sources to Green Bay. Our overall project goals and objectives are to quantify phosphorus and sediment sources and loads, evaluate the cost effectiveness of management approaches, and work with farmers to evaluate barriers to practice adoption. The project goals will be accomplished by combining biophysical and human dimensions research with outreach and extension activities. Throughout all aspects of this project, a stakeholder advisory group will be used to help guide and influence the proposed project to ensure that our efforts maintain local relevance. Specific tasks to accomplish our project goals include validated multi-scale modeling, field-based phosphorus hazard ratings at the watershed and sub-watershed scales, targeted water quality monitoring, nutrient management education for farmers, cost analysis of alternative management scenarios, evaluation of the beliefs and behaviors of agricultural producers, and targeted activities. The information learned through these tasks will be used to select and implement management practices that are most likely to succeed. All aspects of our proposed project are directly relevant to the National Water Program purpose of creating and disseminating knowledge at the community and watershed scale to insure a safe and reliable source of water of appropriate quality.

The greatest threat to the Western World is not, in fact, a missile or bomb. It is the possibility of a mega Tsunami - the greatest Tidal wave the world has ever seen. There is one place where such a geophysical catastrophe could begin, the volcano Cumbre Vieja, situated on the southwest corner of La Palma in the Canary Islands off the Atlantic coast of North Africa. Surrounded deep underground by a marine cold-water lake that dates back to pre-historic times, a nuclear bomb strategically aimed in the centre of Cumbre Vieja will set off a chain of events that will cause molten lava from the core of the earth to boil the lake in about ten seconds. The resulting pressure will blow the entire mountain into the sea, giving rise to the biggest tidal wave for 4000 years. Nine hours later the 150-foot wave travelling at 400 miles an hour across the Atlantic will hit the United States Eastern Coast flooding it for twelve miles inland from Maine to Miami. The single most dangerous weapon that the middle eastern terrorists possess is a nuclear submarine armed with the submerged launch nuclear missile Scimitar, aimed to detonate bang in the middle of the volcano. The terrorists mean business and they blow first Mt St Helens in Washington State and then Montserrat to prove they know what they are doing. The Pentagon almost have a heart attack but refuse to buckle under a terrorist demand for the US military to evacuate the Middle East entirely. The retired Admiral Arnold Morgan is swept to power, and is back in the White House. Under his leadership, the US Navy must either find the nuclear submarine in a million square miles of Atlantic water or begin the logistically nightmarish evacuation of the entire US East Coast. Depicting a terrorist threat that is all too probable, Scimitar SL-2 is Patrick Robinson at his thrilling best.

Les hommes du SEAL sont prêts à tout pour sauver la planète. Mais pas à perdre leur honneur. 2007, détroit d''Ormuz : trois super-tankers explosent les uns après les autres. Les agresseurs : l''Iran et la. Chine. Leur objectif : déstabiliser le marché du pétrole. Les représailles ne se font pas attendre. Le gouvernement américain dépêche vers l''Orient un fleuron de sa flotte, le sous-marin USS Shark. À son bord, douze hommes du SEAL, corps d''élite de l''US Navy. Avec une double mission : détruire une raffinerie du Kazakhstan et anéantir une base chinoise. Deux attaques victorieuses, mais aussi des blessés auxquels le commandant du sous-marin refuse de porter secours. Les SEAL''s n''ont jamais failli à leur code de solidarité on n''abandonne pas un des siens. Ces hommes d''honneur se lancent dans une mutinerie lourde de conséquences... Dans ce nouveau best-seller, l''auteur de Nimitz, un des maîtres du techno-thriller, démonte les ressorts discrets d''une stratégie internationale, plus que jamais d''actualité.

In 2007, when the world''s oil supply is being held hostage by Iran and China in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz, an aging U.S. Navy submarine is dispatched to disarm underwater mines but its crew revolts.

Assez anciens déjà, les sous-marins de la classe "Kilo", un fleuron de la technologie militaire soviétique. Mais insurpassés sur un point : en plongée, ils sont indétectables. Et voici que la Russie, en manque de devises, vient d''en céder une dizaine à la Chine populaire. Déployés dans le détroit de Formose, ces bâtiments pourraient neutraliser toute intervention américaine en cas d''invasion de Taiwan. Une seule façon de conjurer le péril : empêcher la livraison. Les intercepter, coûte que coûte. Et en secret. C''est la mission qui, de la Volga au pôle Nord et aux Kerguelen, va incomber à Boomer Dunning, le commandant du sous-marin nucléaire américain Columbia. Après Nimitz, best-seller international, Patrick Robinson confirme de façon éclatante qu''il est le grand successeur de Tom Clancy dans le domaine du techno-thriller.

A British submarine captured by an Iraqi terrorist proceeds to shoot down aircraft, including one carrying the U.S. vice-president. No one realizes this, the planes having simply disappeared. When the mystery is finally solved, an admiral goes after him. By the author of Nimitz Class.