My second novel, Operation Exodus, is on schedule for release this coming Spring. This book, unlike Silent Warriors, is pure fiction, although you might just recognize some of the people the principal players are based upon. It’s also a lot shorter!
The principal character is the grandson of Silent Warriors’ main character, a Navy Seal Lieutenant named Jacob Joseph Lawlor, Jr. (You may recall that Orca’s captain was Jacob Julius Lawlor, and Jake and Kate swore they wouldn’t saddle any boy child with Julius as a middle name.)
In Operation Exodus, six Evangelical Christian missionaries set out on a fool’s errand: to convert the people of Iran. They are quickly arrested in Teheran for their efforts and thrown into jail. The Iranian government, searching for any excuse to disrupt the upcoming American presidential elections, seize on the incident and accuse the missionaries of being CIA spies. To thwart any rescue attempt, the prisoners are hidden away in a prison in remote Konarak, on the other side of the country. The immediate American response only serves to muddy up the waters, and, finally, the only way to get the prisoners out of Iran is to send in a Seal extraction team. What ensues is the interplay of three spy agencies: the CIA, SAVAK, and Mossad, in an effort to first, locate, and second, to gather enough intel to guide Lawlor and his team to their target. Nothing, of course, ever goes as planned. Drones, flak vests, guns, and submarines (always submarines!) all are in play.
I think Silent Warrior readers will find Operation Exodus an entertaining, if somewhat different, read.
-Gene