Trident Watch - Future Naval War Fiction

TRIDENT WATCH

They pulled him out of retirement because the ocean had gone quiet in the wrong places.

Chief Warrant Officer Einar Cobb spent twenty-four years listening to the deep. Submarines were his language. Sonar was his instrument. Then the Navy told him he was finished, and for six years he believed them.

Now NATO's undersea surveillance network is failing, node by node, and a Russian submarine has vanished into the Norwegian Sea carrying weapons that can reach their targets in minutes. The fleet's most advanced sensors cannot find it. Their newest software cannot classify it. The analysts at headquarters cannot agree on where it is or what it intends.

So they sent for the man with the old ears.

Operating from a patrol aircraft he has never flown in, using systems he has never trained on, embedded with a crew that did not ask for him, Cobb has one advantage that no algorithm can replicate: he has spent a lifetime learning what the ocean sounds like when it is hiding something.

What he finds will change everything.

What it does next will change more.

A novel of submarine warfare, acoustic intelligence, and one man listening at the edge of what the human ear can hear, in deep water where the next war is being rehearsed in silence.