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December 21, 2007
Claude Pearson, JD'48
Minefish: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Puget Sound, iUniverse, 2006
The book: In this novel, the U. S. Submarine Minefish is ordered from its base in San Francisco to Puget Sound to confront a Rogue Submarine, Red Dragon, that is threatening to explode dirty bombs around Puget Sound. The battle between opposing submarines rages around the coves, inlets and waterways of Puget Sound. Will the U. S. Submarines Minefish and Piratefish be able to thwart the plot and capture the conspirators?
The author: Captain Claude M. Pearson USNR (Rtd) is a retired lawyer who lives and writes in Tacoma, Washington. Pearson had parallel careers in law and as a naval reserve officer. After service in the Pacific in World War II, he continued to perform submarine duty on new postwar generations of U. S. Navy subs. He rose to the rank of Captain and during the Vietnam War he served as the Naval Reserve Group Commander at Tacoma. He is the author of two other books published by iUnivese, "Gunfish—A Fleet Submarine Goes to War," and "Piratefish—The Attempted Hijacking of a U.S. Submarine."
Posted by tobiaslw at December 21, 2007 03:48 PM