I must say this feels a bit strange, I have not done a ‘book report’ since high school. That would have been 21 years ago. However since we have done movie reviews on Brent’s World I thought it might be a good change of pace.

Ask most people who know me really well, to say I love to read would be a gross understatement. I try to set aside time for a book as often as I can. Where I always make sure I have book with me wherever I go, I know make sure I have my iPad with at least a few books in my backpack.

My most often read genres include medical thrillers (Robin Cook), Techno Thrillers (Tom Clancy and Larry Bond), Crime and Drama (Nelson DeMille and David Baldacci.). Over the years I have read every novel these authors have published. So I do find myself searching Amazon for author authors to sink my teeth in to. It was one of these searches that introduced me to the work of Rick Campbell and The Trident Deception.

Rick Campbell a retired Naval Commander turned author served on the very submarines he now writes about, with tours in the Pentagon and Washington DC. His knowledge and experience is definitely evident in the exciting sea yarn he spins.

The Trident Deception tells the story of a desperate MOSAD (Israeli intelligence), frantic over the advances made by the Iranian nuclear arms program, and frustrated by the lack of response by both the Israeli and American governments develops a plan to neutralize the threat once and for all and pin the blame squarely on America.

The Israeli agents are able to do the unthinkable, they get an employee of the National Command Authority to send a fraudulent nuclear launch order to a Trident Ballistic Missile Submarine! While it should just be a matter of sending a properly coded strike cancellation to the submarine. A spy aboard the SSBN sabotages the radio so the cancellation order never arrives.

The entire pacific fleet is soon sent underway with orders to find and sink the USS Kentucky, No simple task as the Ohio Class SSBNs are one of the quietest in the US Submarine arsenal. Will the US NAVY find the USS Kentucky before they are able to launch enough nuclear ballistic missiles at Iran to not only wipe out the nuclear facility, but to wipe Iran off the face of the planet? If the USS Kentucky is able to launch, will the anti-ballistic missile batteries or AEGIS destroyers deployed in the Persian Gulf be able to shoot down the errant missiles? Complicating matters, the Navy Captain who is  tasked with finding and ultimately sinking the USS Kentucky has a huge conflict of interest when it is revealed his son is serving as a officer aboard the Kentucky.

The Trident Deception is a novel that stands up right next to some of Tom Clancy’s and Larry Bonds best works, a definite page turner! The book will definitely appear to submarine aficionados, as well as action and suspense fans. The naval action, and suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat, turning page after page to find out how situations will play out. The espionage subplot will keep you guessing who the mole is in the Pentagon, and most importantly of all to find out if the unwitting crew of the USS Kentucky will accomplish their mission and launch their nuclear weapons against a country of mostly innocent civilians. Will Captain Wilson be able to carry out his orders and his duty, but ultimately killing his son?

I highly recommend you purchase The Trident Deception and find out. You will not be disappointed.

The Trident Deception can be purchased in Hardcover, Paperback, and KINDLE at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Trident-Deception-Rick-Campbell/dp/125006127X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439057511&sr=8-1&keywords=trident+deception