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Silent Waters
Silent Waters
Silent Waters
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Silent Waters

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Drawing on fifteen years of submarine-building experience, Jan Coffey crafts a military thriller that will keep any reader turning the pages...

A nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the North Atlantic, commandeered by two-dozen armed terrorists.
The target: New York City.

Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, Commander Darius McCann and Ship Superintendent Amy Russell have only one hope for survival. With the lives of millions at stake, they must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse where capture would mean certain death.

On land, two NCIS investigators are working feverishly to learn the details of the hijacking in time to stop the attack. As mass hysteria paralyzes New York City, they uncover a trail of secrets as dangerous as the silent weapon aimed at the heart of America.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 4, 2013
ISBN9781301359455
Silent Waters
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Jan Coffey

Jan Coffey is a pseudonym for Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick. Nikoo, a mechanical engineer, and Jim, a professor of English with a Ph.D. in sixteenth-century British literature, are living the life of their dreams. Under the name of Jan Coffey, they write contemporary suspense thrillers for MIRA and Young Adult romantic thrillers for HarperCollins/Avon. Writing under the name May McGoldrick, they produce historical novels for Penguin Putnam, and Young Adult historical fiction for HarperCollins/Avon. Under their own names, they are the authors of the nonfiction work, Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Fiction Writing (Heinemann, June 2000). Nikoo and Jim met in 1979. Nikoo was six, and Jim was 30-something. (Just kidding...Jim was in his early twenties.) One morning, after a wild storm had ravaged the New England shoreline, Nikoo was out walking along the seawall in Stonington, Connecticut, and came upon a young man (early twenties...honest!) who was trying to salvage a battered small boat that had washed up on the rocks. Jim needed help dragging the boat up over the seawall and across the salt marsh. Anyway, by the time the two had secured the boat on higher ground, a spark had ignited between them. It was instant electricity...and Jim's been chasing Nikoo ever since. Now, 25 years later, they live in Litchfield County, CT, with their two sons and their golden retriever, Max. They love writing, they love Harlequin/MIRA, and they love the friends (both readers and writers) they've made through their writing.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    "Silent Waters" brings the reader to the world of submarines and the things going on beneath the surface of the water.A submarine is hijacked and heads for a target where the explosive power of the sub could kill millions. The target is New York City.The new commander is Commander Darius McCann and the person helping recover the ship is Amy Russell who is the ship superintendent.The suspense grabbed me from the start and I wondered who would try to hijack a submarine and how did they think they could get away with it.Jan Coffey creates nice characters and a surprise conclusion that will keep the reader scratching their head at the possibilities and methods that the protagonists might use to prevent the hijackers from achieving their goal.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. These two authors have severely twisted minds to write such a good book and make it believable.
    Thank you so much for allowing such perfection to reach ordinary readers like myself.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    SPOILERS AHEAD!This book was written by a husband and wife team and I will tell you right now, had it not been so incredibly well written and fast paced I would have thrown it across the room and not picked it up again until I was ready to take out the garbage. Don't get me wrong, I think these people are wonderful authors. Despite my better judgement I will probably pick up another one of their books because I can see they are incredibly talented. The problem that I had with this book is totally separate from the merits as a piece of literature. If there is one thing that I absolutely can not stand with the white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns its someone blatantly foisting their beliefs on me in the form of entertainment. It drives me INSANE!! Note: This is not because I have any particular affinity for any political party. I would feel the same about this book if it had been wildly slanted in the other direction. If I wanted political commentary I would watch pundits and if I wanted to be indoctrinated I would go to bible college. I can not stand it when people thinly veil their beliefs in the form of what is supposed to be entertaining me. I want to read a story not a badly disguised dissertation on the authors' belief in the evil properties of the Republic party, President Bush and Homeland Security. And the as if the blatant Republican and Bush bashing wasn't clear enough there's always the sainted Democratic candidate who's family covers the entire minority spectrum. And they're not even religious. Hooray!!From the very first page when the two innocent Bush bashing, oh excuse me Hawkins bashing, guards get munched by the terrorists I already see where this is going. Page one and I could already see that this was going to be a massive right wing conspiracy theorist novel. And it had so much potential. I loved the characters and I'm not lying, the writing is great. So why, why, why did they have to ruin it all for me by making it a lesson in why Republicans are Satan? Grr.And despite it all I will find their other books and read them. There's something in that, right?

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