OPERATION VELA REDUX: A Mac McDowell Mission
Fast action, enemy and allied subs, attractive women, spies, Antarctic exploits, and unauthorized nuclear weapon tests!
"Damn, this is a good book! Williscroft is a superb writer." —John Clarke, PhD, Saturation Diving Consultant
While Commander Mac McDowell returns from WestPac and Operation White Out to assume command of USS Teuthis, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Arens secretly meets with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to present new intelligence that South Africa intends to detonate a nuclear device south of the Cape in the waters surrounding the Prince Edwards Islands.
Mac and Teuthis receive urgent Top Secret orders to proceed posthaste to the Prince Edwards Islands, stopping briefly to inspect the Taiwanese oil operation off Thurston Island, and then boarding an Israeli Shayetet 13 unit at Mare Harbour in the Falklands.
In a desperate race against time, can Mac and the Shayetet 13 unit successfully intervene in the South African nuclear test, or will they become collateral damage in South African President F. W. de Klerk's bid to join the exclusive global nuclear club?