Operation Ivy Bells: A Mac McDowell Mission

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Fresh Ink Group, Aug 16, 2019 - Fiction - 390 pages
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Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell faces his greatest challenge yet, leading the team into a critical Cold War mission. With a security clearance above Top Secret, Mac and his off-the-books deep-water espionage group must gather Russian intel to avert world war. Join nuclear-submariner Mac as he extreme-dives to a thousand feet, battles giant squids, and proves what brave men can achieve under real pressure, the kind that will steal your air and crush the life out of you. Operation Ivy Bells: A Mac McDowell Mission updates the popular bestseller by Robert G. Williscroft, a lifelong adventurer who blends his own experiences with real events to craft a military thriller that will take your breath away.

 

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Operation Ivy Bells is about submarine warfare and espionage during the Cold War...a novel that cloaks quite a lot of history. Of course, there's some embellishment of the history; including a giant ... Read full review

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"It was super secret. Nobody knew about it except for a very select few, including the President, SecDef, SecNav, one admiral, Craven, the very small contingent at Submarine Development Group One ... Read full review

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Contents

Dedication
USS Halibut Organizational Chart
Chapter
Chapter ree
Chapter Five
Chapter
Chapter Seven
Chapter Nine
Chapter
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
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About the author (2019)

Dr. Williscroft is a retired submarine officer, deep-sea and saturation diver, scientist, author of numerous books and hundreds of articles, and a lifelong adventurer. He spent 22 months underwater, a year in the equatorial Pacific, three years in the Arctic ice pack, and a year at the Geographic South Pole. He holds degrees in Marine Physics and Meteorology, and a doctorate for developing a system to protect SCUBA divers in contaminated water. A prolific author of both non-fiction and fiction, he lives in Centennial, Colorado, with his family.

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TitleOperation Ivy Bells: A Mac McDowell Mission
Volume 1 of Mac McDowell Series
AuthorRobert G. Williscroft
Illustrated byGary McCluskey
PublisherFresh Ink Group, 2019
ISBN1947867490, 9781947867499
Length390 pages
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Fiction / Thrillers / Military
Fiction / Thrillers / Technological
Fiction / War & Military
  
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