Black Sea Affair

Written by Don Brown

Narrated by James Adams

It’s a mission that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Now time is running out.It starts with a high-stakes theft: weapons-grade plutonium is stolen from Russia. The Russian army is about to attack Chechnya to get it back. But U.S. intelligence discovers that the stolen shipment is actually on a rogue Russian freighter in the Black Sea. It turns into a global nightmare: a secret mission gone awry; an American submarine commander arrested and hauled before a military tribunal in Moscow; and a game of brinksmanship so dangerous that war might be its only possible conclusion.As the U.S. Navy searches for weapons-grade plutonium that has been smuggled out of Russia by terrorists, a submarine mishap escalates the international crisis. With the world watching, JAG Officer Zack Brewer is called to Moscow to defend submarine skipper Pete Miranda and his entire crew. It is a heart-stopping race against the clock. With Russian missiles activated and programmed for American cities, Brewer stalls for time as the U.S. Navy frantically searches the high seas for a floating hydrogen bomb that could threaten New York Harbor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Feb 26, 2009
• ISBN: 9780310300571

Don Brown

Don Brown is the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and Sibert Honor–winning author and illustrator of many nonfiction graphic novels for teens and picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him “a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies.” He lives in New York with his family. booksbybrown.com Instagram: @donsart

Reviews for Black Sea Affair

[cbinstead_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Exciting suspense thriller about theft of plutonium and the threat to world peace.

[Linda Negrone · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Don you did it again. Your adventurers ate so realistic. Keep them coming.

[judyg54 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is another story in this series, but it can easily be read as a stand alone story, as many of the characters are new. Same writing style, same intensity in the story though. As the back cover states so well: "It's a mission that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Now time is running out."It is a high stakes game of who has stolen Russia's weapons-grade plutonium and where will it be used. The US Navy goes on a very dangerous mission to sink the freighter with the plutonium, not knowing it was also carrying several orphans on board. When they seek to save the children they will be captured by the Russians and await trial to be executed. But while this is going on, the plutonium is still in the hands of those who are seeking to destroy a huge mass of people. It will keep you reading to see what happens and when will it happen and how will it happen. Never a dull moment in this book.

[aliceanna-1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Just finished Treason and you couldn't pay me to read anything else by this guy. Just awful on many, many, many different levels.

[buffalogr · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Another Dan Brown thriller. The twists of plot kept my interest in a big way. However, the audible.com reading by a brit was very much a distraction: british accent in the oval office and pronounciation differences like "pengagun" for "pentagon" and "sunt" for "saint". Book finished with a SEAL raid--enhancing their bright, shiney reputation.