Cold Choices

Jerry Mitchell is on USS Seawolf, a Seawolf class submarine on a mission in the arctic, when an accident happens. He is still a junior grade lieutenant but now navigator, a more central role, giving him access to most everything that happens. Most of the book is about the political and practical consequences of having both Russians and Americans in close proximity to each other.

Larry Bond does a good job at painting a plausible chain of events and behaviours though there is a huge uncertainty factor so if something similar was to happen in the real world, I can imagine very different outcomes that would also be plausible.

Definitely a thriller! Enough agonizing twists and turns to make you wonder if the expected conclusion was really going to occur. Author obviously well versed on the subject of submarines and the naval military. Only fault was, in my opinion, an over excessive use of facts and procedures that slowed me down. A great read nevertheless.

477 pages. Straight no holds barred submarine warfare tale in the post cold war era.