Published: July 12, 2011
Words: 53951 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a graduate of the Naval Academy and on the Navy’s pistol team. She’s also an electronic weapons officer tasked with coming up with new weapons designs. When she gets assigned to an aircraft carrier as a fighter pilot’s backseater, a missile attack on her plane leads to a mission to try to save the port of Los Angeles from a suspected terrorist attack.

Extended description

Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a female Navy officer who has striven to be the best even if it earns her enemies. A graduate of the Naval Academy, she’s on the Navy’s pistol team, she fenced saber in college, and she does t’ai chi for relaxation.

She’s also an electronic weapons officer and is tasked with coming up with new weapons designs at STORC — Special Tactics and Operations Research Center. Something in her past that she chooses not to reveal may explain why she is so driven.

When she gets assigned to an aircraft carrier as a fighter pilot’s backseater, a missile attack on her plane leads to a mission to try to save the port of Los Angeles from a suspected terrorist attack.... (Read more) Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a female Navy officer who has striven to be the best even if it earns her enemies. A graduate of the Naval Academy, she’s on the Navy’s pistol team, she fenced saber in college, and she does t’ai chi for relaxation.

She’s also an electronic weapons officer and is tasked with coming up with new weapons designs at STORC — Special Tactics and Operations Research Center. Something in her past that she chooses not to reveal may explain why she is so driven.

When she gets assigned to an aircraft carrier as a fighter pilot’s backseater, a missile attack on her plane leads to a mission to try to save the port of Los Angeles from a suspected terrorist attack.

She must control her enormous competitive drive in order to work as a team with other Navy personnel and the Coast Guard to find a needle in a haystack.

From there a twist in the mission takes her to Alaska, where the anti-missile defense site may have been compromised.
Next up she is tasked with finding a solution to dealing with IEDs in Afghanistan, a task that almost costs her life.
From there she bulldozes her way into being the first female assigned to a sub smaller than one of the large Ohio-class boomers. She wants to be the one to test the new defensive weapons system she designed.

She is unaware that her past is about to catch up to her present in a bizarre situation she could never have foreseen.
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womens fiction, technothriller, submarines, south china sea, us navy, spratly islands

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Review by: Paul Zimmerli on Jan. 19, 2012 :
I agree with aussiematt... This is the core of two fine novels that need fleshing out. As a service retiree, I agree the rank is too low for the actions the heroine supposedly takes, but military fiction writers often under-grade their protagonists like this because they don't understand the levels of authority each rank carries or lacks. Overall, however, I've enjoyed it. At least the author knows what a spell-check button is for, unlike most Smashwords authors, unfortunately... She has a good writing style that, as a retired journalist, I fully appreciate. Please take a good look at this book, break it into a novel about Commander Mollie Sanders and one about Captain Mollie Sanders, and flesh them out with a little more detail and verbosity... You've got a couple of money-earners here if you do it right. Oh - and get a reviewer who's a retired naval officer to take a look at them and make suggestions...
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Review by: aussiematt on Nov. 23, 2011 :
The two stories (while sharing a time line they are in effect two books) are rather drawn out, yet sketchy in parts. The plots are fine and with some revisiting, rewriting and I suspect more attention to what naval ranks can do (Lt Commander is a low rank) more consistency in what characters are called (too often characters are giving different names) and fixing up the jumps between possibly overly descriptive and bits (like the part on the pier where they were there - event- then suddenly in the car) that miss connective flows (a good editor will help greatly) will make two good books
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