The Steel Albatross by Scott Carpenter (1991)

The Steel Albatross
by Scott Carpenter
Publisher: Pocket Books
Copyright: 1991
Book Club Edition

In 1962, strapped into his AURORA 7 spacecraft, astronaut Scott Carpenter rocketed through three revolutions of the earth. Three years later, Carpenter explored the mysteries of the deep in the Navy's Man-in-the-Sea program in SEALAB II, spending thirty days living and working on the ocean floor -- thus becoming the only human ever to penetrate both inner and outer space. Now, "Right Stuff" astronaut Scott Carpenter draws on his incomparable experience in sea and space to write a thriller of men and technology pushed to their limits, as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. wage a nerve-wracking duel beneath the sea.

Rick Tallman is a renegade from the Navy Top Gun School, a hotshot fighter pilot who's succeeded in messing up everything he's ever tried -- only because he hasn't found the right challenge for his extensive talents. After yet another scandalous incident, he accepts a last-ditch effort to rescue his Naval career, and begin training with the Navy's crack underwater forces, the SEALs.

The STEEL ALBATROSS is prototype SA-1a, a submarine like no other before it. The ALBATROSS works like a glider, undetectable to enemy sonar, moving stealthily with the force of gravity and ballast to plumb the darkness of the deep. What its designers don't know is that the STEEL ALBATROSS, just barely in the testing stage, is about to become the most important defensive weapon in the U.S. arsenal.

Elements within the U.S.S.R. military have engineered Project Temnota (translation: Oblivion) -- a secret underwater power plant with enough kick to knock out every computer and electronic link in the U.S., rendering the U.S. defense systems inoperable.

As the Soviets rush to activate Project Temnota, Rick Tallman is given the challenge he's always needed: command of the unproven STEEL ALBATROSS. Beneath the Pacific, in a bizarre terrain that only an experienced deep sea diver could navigate, Tallman and the ALBATROSS begin a deadly duel with the men of Temnota. As this extraordinary novel builds to its smashing climax, the true extent of man's capabilities on land and sea are revealed, as is the power of human courage when pushed beyond the brink.

In Steel Albatross Scott Carpenter has written a novel that combines his unique technological insight with action and vivid characters -- the work of a true American hero now distinguishing himself as a top-flight novelist.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover has a bit of shelf wear and rubbed edges. Dust cover, flaps and pages are lightly tanned from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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