{"product_id":"book-au0d","title":"Thunder in the Deep","description":"In his electrifying first novel Joe Buff instantly established himself as the ultimate chronicler of 21st-century warfare by taking military fiction and submarine combat to a new level of authenticity, vision, and power. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThunder in the Deep\u003c\/b\u003e picks up where \u003cb\u003eDeep Sound Channel\u003c\/b\u003e left off, bringing to life a frightening seascape where technology pushes warriors to new extremes, and warriors push technology to the max. This time the difference between victory and defeat hinges on the two most advanced nuclear attack submarines in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eChallenger\u003c\/i\u003e is the weapon of the future, a ceramic-hulled nuclear attack submarine whose electronic eyes and ears are the most advanced ever created. It is commanded by acting captain Jeffrey Fuller, a former SEAL turned submariner whose aggressiveness has made him a rising star — and sometimes scares the hell out of his crew. Fuller’s mission is to rescue the Virginia-class fast attack sub \u003ci\u003eTexas,\u003c\/i\u003e now lying on the bottom of the Atlantic just off the Azores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the enemy — a newly resurrected and fanatically militaristic Germany — knows where the \u003ci\u003eTexas\u003c\/i\u003e is, too, and knows the \u003ci\u003eChallenger\u003c\/i\u003e is coming. It is \u003ci\u003eChallenger\u003c\/i\u003e the Germans want, dispatching their own high-tech supersub, the \u003ci\u003eDeutschland,\u003c\/i\u003e to destroy her. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this war your enemy is a blip on a console hardwired into an integrated nuclear weapons system. Ships are vaporized off the surface of the sea, nuclear shock waves unleash deadly tsunami waves, and smart submarines do battle with smart aircraft sent to hunt them down. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Jeffrey Fuller and the \u003ci\u003eChallenger,\u003c\/i\u003e for the men on board the \u003ci\u003eDeutschland,\u003c\/i\u003e the race beneath the ocean’s surface across a horrific underwater war zone will demand every bit of courage and skill they can muster just to survive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore it’s over, the \u003ci\u003eChallenger\u003c\/i\u003e’s mission is radically redefined: Fuller, his SEALs, and freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck are sent into Germany itself — to plant a nuke right in the gut of the enemy’s power structure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThunder in the Deep\u003c\/b\u003e plunges the reader into the middle of some of the fiercest and most thrilling depictions of underwater warfare ever written. It is an electrifying novel of military strategy and action, a powerful tale of technology and humanity that will have you breathlessly turning pages until the explosive climax.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341101080880,"sku":"BDau0d","price":13.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/179061-au0d-Square.jpg?v=1734054383","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-au0d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}