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The Sixth Fleet

The Military Thriller series by David E. Meadows
Published by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

The THE SIXTH FLEET series are four exciting military-naval thrillers to hit the market in 2001 and 2002. This series of novels follow a downsized United States Sixth Fleet rushing to rescue Americans trapped in Algiers as Islamic terrorists cause North Africa to explode into chaos. The first novel The SIXTH FLEET, erupts with Libya sinking an American destroyer and bombing American bases in Sicily and Crete. A Navy EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft on routine patrol in the Central Mediterranean warns Sixth Fleet about the sinking and the imminent attacks. Tensions mount when the unarmed Navy aircraft flies toward Libyan territorial waters to confirm the sinking of the U.S. Navy ship and then dodges hostile aircraft in a mad dash to safety. SIXTH FLEET sets the pace for the sequels and was released June 12, 2001.

Combat actions continue in the sequels as the United States military fight a war on the Korean Peninsula, leaving the few military and Navy-Marine Corps units in the Mediterranean and the European theater to resolve the war in terrorism crisis erupting across the North African littoral with the aim of destroying America and subjugating Europe to Islamic terrorist control of the Mediterranean. Battles erupt in the air, on and under the sea, and ashore as Marines, Sailors, Airmen and Soldiers fight to rescue American hostages, save each other and contain the hostile actions of a rogue nation. THE SIXTH FLEET SEAWOLF was released in November 2001; with THE SIXTH FLEET TOMCAT released February 5, 2002. The final novel in THE SIXTH FLEET series, SIXTH FLEET COBRA was released August 6, 2002.

THE SIXTH FLEET By: David E. Meadows "As the car continued to accelerate away, the Italian sentry guessed immediately what was happening. Adrenaline and terror rushed through his body. He pulled his pistol and began firing at the speeding automobile. Two bullets shattered the rear window, one of which hit the driver at the base of the nect, shattering his spine and sending the terrorist into Allah's arms at the same moment the car hit the edge of the pier. The car hit the port stern line, flipping the car upside down just as it slammed into the USS LA SALLE. The impact crushed the front of the car as one thousand pounds of semtex plastic explosive packed into the back seat, the trunk, and the panels of the car exploded. Within minutes, the warship and the sailors who manned her were sitting on the bottom of the harbor....."]

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THE SIXTH FLEET - SEAWOLF By: David E. Meadows "Holman jumped as the first torpedo exploded against the distant Rodgers. The nose of the destroyer disappeared in a cloud of smoke and debris, followed by three more explosions one after the another along the length of the ship. The concussion knocked Holman and his XO off their feet as a huge pall of smoke boiled upon itself where the Rodgers had been. Already stretching hundreds of feet in the air, a burst of flame broke through the black cloud. Holman stared at the conflagration, still not believing his eyes as pieces of the ship and debris rained down on the ocean surface and the Stennis flight deck. Where USS John Rodgers had been, it was as if nothing had existed. No ship, just a vast expanse of ocean littered with debris where less than a minute ago over three hundred officers and sailors had manned a five-hundred-sixthy-three-foot warship. Sucked into the storm of war, vanquished without honor, but gone, as if they never existed, to become a footnote in naval history."

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