Warhead

by Noel B. Gerson

The Hawk is the first of its kind — a highly advanced nuclear submarine with both hunter-killer and missile-bearing capabilities. The largest submersible vessel ever made, it is a revolutionary triumph for both the U.S. Navy and the Vanderhoeft-Noyes Shipping Company. But when it sinks in what appears to be a freak accident, Warren Noyes, the company’s new executive vice-president, is desperate to find out the cause of the Hawk’s malfunction. With the arms race against the Soviets heating up, Vice-Admiral Waldemar Borgonin will not tolerate any delay at all to the launch of Hawk’s sister ship, Falcon. Noyes and his highly specialized team are under enormous pressure to identify and fix the flaw in the apparently perfect technology before any more lives are put at risk. Meanwhile community tensions are flaring up, as the ship company’s workers move to strike, and individual grievances against the company threaten to sabotage its operations. Warhead is a powerful and atmospheric novel which perfectly captures Cold War tensions. Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was a prolific American author, who wrote 325 books under his own name and under several pseudonyms. He channeled his own wartime experience in military intelligence into many of his novels, as well as writing widely about American history. His titles include ‘Liner’, ‘I’ll Storm Hell’, ‘The Conqueror’s Wife’, ‘The Great A Biography of Captain John Smith’ and ‘Daughter of Earth and A Biography of Mary Shelley’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

Hardcover

First published February 7, 2015

About the author

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.

Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan.

Reviews

[Harold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful interesting story

Even though this book lacks violence and is not a shoot-em-up. It is a very interesting and exciting story from a completely different point of view. The actual construction and testing of a nuclear submarine. I thoroughly enjoyed it.