Is his dream of creating worldwide rescue submarines doomed by the French ironclad bearing down on him in the Atlantic storm?
The French want to kill him---again. First in the Paiute Indian wars, but now he is white-knuckle exhausted in wrestling the tiny pitching mini-sub off stormy Civil War Cape Hatteras. The French ironclad appeared in the middle of the Atlantic storm, six-inch guns blazing and intent on obliterating the vulnerable submarines in tow to attack the unsuspecting rebel ironclads at Charlestown.
He had unshakeable faith in his sub to submerge and escape---but at the last moment, he glimpsed through his periscope a stranded French sailor bobbing between the huge foamy rollers of the storm.
Time to decide what he stood for: Easy escape or surface to rescue a French sailor and chance certain death in a hail of shot?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun read!
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This book was fun to read. It has enough true history to make it almost believable. Aldis Gunn would have been the most incredibly smart man on earth if he was able to come up with all that he was attributed to. It seemed more like Will Smith's version of MAVERICK. All in all, I still enjoyed it though. I'm moving on to the next one in the series - Rescue at Hiroshima. —G. Carpenito
Amazing conspiracy theory stuff
4 out of 5 stars (Barnes and Noble)
Imagine a submarine base, in a landlocked state, in an underground cavern in the middle of a lake in the middle of an Indian reservation. Seems too strange, but the author takes some interesting points of real Nevada history to make his Nevada Navy such a secret. Like the cavern is in a island declared a bird refuge in 1913, and later a national preserve in the 1940's and today is off limits to everyone. And author Smith pieces together a history through little known Indian wars, a battle between the US Navy and the French off the coast of Cape Hatteras, through a meeting with Abraham Lincoln. Lol, but it's fun.
Weird but interesting
5 out of 5 stars (Barnes and Noble)
Since Nevada doesn't have any outlet to the ocean, how could there be a Nevada Navy? That's the amusing tale of this alternate history, woven with real facts of Nevada, the Civil War, submarine development and a curious relationship between Aldis Gunn, the founder of the Nevada Navy, and Sarah Winnemucca, one of Nevada's most famous native Americans. Very weird, but absorbing story and background for the author's [three] other books about the Nevada Navy, [Rescuing Amelia Earhart] Rescue at Hiroshima and Escape from Hiroshima.
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