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The year is 2006 and Argentina has launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula, seeking to dominate the last untapped resource pool on the planet. While the nations of the world are taken by surprise, the only military unit in position to react is the USS Cunningham, an experimental stealth guided missile destroyer on its first overseas deployment. And as the diplomatic furore reaches its inevitable stalemate, it is left to Commander Amanda Lee Garrett, in charge of the Cunningham, to take on the combined forces of the Argentine navy and air force in the freezing, fog-shrouded waters off the Antarctic circle while the fate of the seventh continent hangs in the balance. 'Stands head and shoulders above the missile-chaff of high-tech military novels... A direct hit!' Eric Lustbader 'Genuinely exciting... First-rate military suspense' Kirkus Reviews… (más)
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Dedicated to the members of "Task Force Cunningham" To the chief, as always To the two Kathys, who helped reacquaint me with the English language And to Sherrill and Laurel, who instructed me in the care and feeding of a heroine
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"Awake and about, woman!"
Citas
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The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The hate that swings the whole; The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, At gaze and gone again -- The Brides of Death that wait the groom -- The Choosers of the Slain!
From Rudyard KIPLING, The Destroyers
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The burial party departed, the ship disappeared into the sea smoke, and the katabatic winds began to scatter snow crystals across the flowers and the bare stones of the grave, slowly sheathing them in ice and eternity.
The year is 2006 and Argentina has launched a military takeover of the Antarctic peninsula, seeking to dominate the last untapped resource pool on the planet. While the nations of the world are taken by surprise, the only military unit in position to react is the USS Cunningham, an experimental stealth guided missile destroyer on its first overseas deployment. And as the diplomatic furore reaches its inevitable stalemate, it is left to Commander Amanda Lee Garrett, in charge of the Cunningham, to take on the combined forces of the Argentine navy and air force in the freezing, fog-shrouded waters off the Antarctic circle while the fate of the seventh continent hangs in the balance. 'Stands head and shoulders above the missile-chaff of high-tech military novels... A direct hit!' Eric Lustbader 'Genuinely exciting... First-rate military suspense' Kirkus Reviews