Книга: Stephen Coonts «America»
Серия: "-" Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction - he suspects sabotage... The USS America - the world's most technically advanced nuclear submarine - is launched on its maiden voyage. Then shortly after steaming out of harbor, the unthinkable happens. Pirated by terrorists, America disappears beneath the roiling waves of the Atlantic, its Tomahawk warheads aimed directly at the United States... An ingeniously calculated war has been waged - but the rouge enemy is far more insidious than Jake Grafton ever imagined. His mission: ferret out the core group responsible, overtake the stealth sub, and destroy it. But times is running out, and the race is on for Grafton to blow the covert operation out of the water before an entire nation is brought to its knees. Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2002)
ISBN: 978-0-312-98250-8 |
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Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American thriller and suspense novelist.
Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a small coal-mining town [1] and earned an B.A. degree in political science at West Virginia University in 1968. He entered the Navy the following year and flew an A-6 Intruder medium attack plane during the Vietnam War, where he served on two combat cruises aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). He accumulated 1600 hours in the A-6 Intruder and earned a number of Navy commendations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His navigator-bombardier was LTjg Stanley W. Bryant who later became a Rear Admiral and deputy commander-in-chief of the US naval forces in Europe.)
After the war Coonts served as a flight instructor for A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68). After being honorably discharged from duty as a lieutenant in 1977, Coonts pursued a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of Colorado, graduating in 1979. He then worked as a lawyer for several oil and gas companies, pursuing his writing interests in his free time.
Coonts published short stories in a number of publications before writing Flight of the Intruder in 1986. That book, based in part on his experiences as an A-6 pilot during the Vietnam War, spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists, and later (1991) was made into a movie. This launched his career as a novelist, and he continued writing adventure-thrillers, most of them based on the main character from his first book, Jake Grafton. Coonts has also written several other series and stand-alone novels, but is best known for the Grafton books.
Today Coonts continues to write, having had seventeen New York Times bestsellers (out of 20 books). He lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son, Brandon.
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Bibliography
Jake Grafton Series
- Note: The list below represents Stephen Coonts' suggested reading order.[1]
- Flight of the Intruder (1986), ISBN 0870212001 (filmed in 1991)
- The Intruders (1994), ISBN 1591141281
- Final Flight (1988), ISBN 0385245556
- The Minotaur (1989), ISBN 0440207428
- Under Siege (1990), ISBN 0671722298
- The Red Horseman (1993), ISBN 0671748874
- Cuba (1999), ISBN 031220521X
- Hong Kong (2000), ISBN 0312253397
- America (2001), ISBN 0312253419
- Liberty (2003), ISBN 031228361X
Tommy Carmellini Series
- Note: The list below represents Stephen Coonts' suggested reading order.[2]
- Liars and Thieves (aka Wages of Sin) (2004), ISBN 0312283628
- The Traitor (2006), ISBN 031232359X
- The Assassin (2008), ISBN 9780752868691
- The Disciple (2009), ISBN 978-0-312-37283-5
- Note: Tommy Carmellini also appears in the Jake Grafton novels Cuba, Hong Kong, America and Liberty
Saucer Series
- Saucer (2002)
- Saucer: The Conquest[3] (2004)
Deep Black Series
Deep Black Series with Jim DeFelice
- Deep Black (2003)
- Biowar (2004)
- Dark Zone (2004)
- Payback (2005)
- Jihad (2007)
- Conspiracy (2008)
Deep Black Series with William H. Keith
- Arctic Gold (2009)
- Sea of Terror (2010)
- Death Wave (2011)
As editor
- Fortunes of War (1998), ISBN 0312185839
- The 17th Day (1999) =
- Combat (2001) =
- The Garden of Eden (2006) (writing as Eve Adams) =
Non-Fiction
- The Cannibal Queen: A Flight into the Heart of America (1992), ISBN 067174884X
- War In The Air: True Accounts (1996), ISBN 0671881906
- On Glorious Wings: The Best Flying Stories (2003), ISBN 0312877242
- Victory (2003), ISBN 0312874626
References
- ^ "Reading Order of the Jake Grafton Series as Suggested by The Author". http://stephencoonts.wordpress.com/f-a-q/.
- ^ "Reading Order of the Tommy Carmellini Series as Suggested by The Author". http://stephencoonts.wordpress.com/f-a-q/.
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Saucer-Conquest-Stephen-Coonts/dp/B0009B2WUQ/
External links
- Official site
- Interview at the Pritzker Military Library
- Stephen Coonts audio interview with National Review Online
- Stephen Coonts at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Nevada lawyers
- American novelists
- American military writers
- People from Upshur County, West Virginia
- American military personnel of the Vietnam War
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
- Nevada Republicans
- United States Navy officers
- United States naval aviators
- Aviators from West Virginia
- West Virginia University alumni
- American military personnel from West Virginia
Источник: Stephen Coonts
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