Stephen Coonts - Stephen Coonts Deep Black: Arctic Gold

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF
STEPHEN COONTS

THE ASSASSIN

The action moves swiftly to its Hollywood ending.

Publishers Weekly

THE TRAITOR

In bestseller Coontss assured new international thriller, Tommy Carmellini, the sardonic, laid-back CIA agent who became a star in 2004s Liars and Thieves, gets a shot at the big time.

Publishers Weekly

LIARS & THIEVES

Vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue, with the added benefit of a new lead character.

Dallas Morning News

Excellent.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

LIBERTY

Frighteningly realistic.

Maxim

GrippingCoontss naval background and his legal education bring considerable authority to the story, and the narrative is loaded with detailed information about terrorist networks, modern weaponry, and international intriguethe action is slam-bang.

Publishers Weekly

AMERICA

The master of the techno-thriller spins a bone-chilling worst-case scenario involving international spies, military heroics, conniving politicians, devious agencies, a hijacked nuclear sub, lethal computer hackers, currency speculators, maniac moguls, and greedy mercenaries that rival Clancy for fiction-as-realism and Cussler for spirited action.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Fans of Coonts and his hero Grafton will love it. Great fun.

Library Journal

Coontss action and the techno-talk are as gripping as ever.

Kirkus Reviews

Thrilling roller-coaster action. Give a hearty welcome back to Admiral Jake Grafton.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

HONG KONG

Move over, Clancy, readers know they can count on Coonts.

Midwest Book Review

The author gives us superior suspense with a great cast of made-up charactersBut the best thing about this book is Coontss scenario for turning China into a democracy.

Liz Smith, The New York Post

A high-octane blend of techno-wizardry [and] ultra-violence[Coonts] skillfully captures the postmodern flavor of Hong Kong, where a cell phone is as apt as an AK-47 to be a revolutionary weapon.

USA Today

Coonts has perfected the art of the high-tech adventure story.

Library Journal

Coonts does a remarkable job of capturing the mood of clashing cultures in Hong Kong.

Publishers Weekly

Filled with action, intrigue, and humanity.

San Jose Mercury News

CUBA

Enough Tomahawk missiles, stealth bombers, and staccato action to satisfy [Coontss] most demanding fans.

USA Today

[A] gripping and intelligent thriller.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Perhaps the best of Stephen Coontss six novels about modern warfare.

Austin American-Statesman

Coonts delivers some of his best gung-ho suspense writing yet.

Kirkus Reviews

FORTUNES OF WAR

Fortunes of War is crammed with action, suspense, and characters with more than the usual one dimension found in these books.

USA Today

A stirring examination of courage, compassion, and profound nobility of military professionals under fire. Coontss best yet.

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Full of action and suspensea strong addition to the genre.

Publishers Weekly

FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER

Extraordinary! Once you start reading, you wont want to stop!

Tom Clancy

[Coontss] gripping, first-person narration of aerial combat is the best Ive ever read. Once begun, this book cannot be laid aside.

The Wall Street Journal

Kept me strapped in the cockpit of the authors imagination for a down-and-dirty novel.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SAUCER

A comic, feel-good SF adventure...[delivers] optimistic messages about humanitys ability to meet future challenges.

Kirkus Reviews

Tough to put down.

Publishers Weekly

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Novels by STEPHEN COONTS

The Assassin

The Traitor

Liars & Thieves

Liberty

Saucer: The Conquest

Saucer

America

Hong Kong

Cuba

Fortunes of War

Flight of the Intruder

Final Flight

The Minotaur

Under Siege

The Red Horseman

The Intruders

Nonfiction books by
STEPHEN COONTS

The Cannibal Queen

War in the Air

ARCTIC GOLD

Written by Stephen Coonts
and William H. Keith

St. Martins Paperbacks

NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as unsold and destroyed to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this stripped book.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

STEPHEN COONTS DEEP BLACK: ARCTIC GOLD

Copyright 2009 by Stephen P. Coonts and Deborah B. Coonts.

All rights reserved.

For information address St. Martins Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10010.

ISBN: 0-312-94695-3

EAN: 978-0-312-94695-1

Printed in the United States of America

St. Martins Paperbacks edition / February 2009

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Latitude 90 N

1445 hours

IT WAS, FEODOR GOLYTSIN THOUGHT , like touching down on the surface of another planet.

Ostorojna! Captain Third Rank Dmitri Kurchakov warned. Careful! Reduce speed of descent!

Da, Kepitan, the helmsman replied.

Vasily. Give me a readout on the depth below keel.

Deseet metrov, Kepitan, the diving officer replied. Ten meters.

Golytsin stooped to peer through the thick quartz window into the alien world beyond. Another planet, yes... a very dark planet. Blacker than the surface of far Pluto, for there, at least, there was a sun, if one shrunken and wan. Here there was nothing save the luminescence of the abyssal fauna, banished now by the light the submarine brought with her from above.

A dark planet, and a deadly one. At a depth of just over forty-two hundred meters, the pressure bearing down on each and every square centimeter of Nomer Chiteereh