Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A first printing of the first edition, stain to foredge, else Fine in Fine dust-jacket with trivial edge-wear, signed by the author Scott Carpenter directly on the title page.

In a last ditch effort to save his naval career Rick Tallman, a hotshot fighter pilot, accepts a position as the commander of the unproven and untested Steel Albatross, a new stealthy underwater submarine. It soon becomes a deadly game when he is tasked with stopping the Soviets from activating an underwater weapon that could render all US computers useless ; 8vo; [viii], 371, [5] pages; Signed by Author.