This is the book the United States Navy tried to stop from publication, as the author asks how far would a father go to save the life of his daughter?
If the father is a respected commanding officer of a Los Angeles Class fast-attack nuclear submarine at Pearl Harbor, and his beautiful daughter Caroline calls for help from her pristine yacht in the South China Sea, how far would he go?
The words, screaming into the cell phone that night, horrify him, "Daddy, they're killing everybody and they're coming for us, can you help us? Please, can you save..." And, the line abruptly goes dead.
A father who loves his daughter will do whatever it takes to find her and to bring her to safety.
He will do what it takes, even if his career is sacrificed, even if his life is threatened by the searching forces outside the USS Monterey, and even if he may spend the remainder of his life in prison. If there is a chance he could survive the threats, Commander Gary Moore has to take the chance. In the dark of night from the waters of Pearl Harbor, in a search spanning thousands of miles of ocean, with deadly challenges from machinery within the submarine and from the powerful forces hunting the sea, he launches the mission with a select band of volunteer submariners.
As he prepares to face the most vicious terrorists in the world in the search for his daughter, he is ready for battle, he is ready to bring her home.
A warning: once you start this book, it cannot be stopped...
About the Author :
Roger C. Dunham (website: Rogercdunham.com) was born in Pasadena, California, and following a brief and unremarkable journey through one year of junior college, he joined the United States Navy. After three years of intense training in electronics, nuclear power theory and operations, nuclear reactor prototype procedures, and submarine school, he served as a reactor operator aboard a spy submarine in the Pacific Ocean for another three years. During that time, his experiences created the foundation for his book SPY SUB, published by the Naval Institute Press. Because of the highly classified nature of the story, the Pentagon worked closely to ensure no secrets relating to the finding of a Soviet Submarine in the western Pacific Ocean were ever revealed to the public. After he received his honorable discharge and began premedical studies at the University of Southern California, he was accepted at the UCLA School of Medicine where he graduated in 1975. His internship year at USC-LAC Medical Center in Los Angeles began with one month on the Jail Ward, caring for dangerous wounded and sick prisoners, the experiences of which created the basis for his second book, FINAL DIAGNOSIS. Dr. Dunham and Keiko (celebrating their 50th anniversary this year) have raised two children (a daughter and a son) and he has worked as a physician for 40 years, practicing Primary Care Internal Medicine. The years of his medical practice created the foundation for his third book, SURVIVING MORTALITY published in 2018, bringing readers the challenges faced by many of his patients whose lives were threatened by their own personal impending mortality. Through the doctor's eyes, the desperate efforts by these patients to survive the threats of traumatic forces from nature provide a better understanding for improvement and even a survival from the threats readers may experience as they face their own potential mortality. He began writing ROGUE CAPTAIN in 2014, and with the support of his shipmates and his submarine's commanding officer, as well as others in the Navy, several fathers with daughters, and many of his patients, he completed the book for publication in 2018.
