Trident: The Future is out of control - and it's happening now...

by John Passmore

This review appeared in the Daily Mail on November 9th 2017:By Geoffrey WansellFormer Daily Mail reporter Passmore first wrote this novel in 1983, when it was dismissed by publishers as ‘a little far-fetched’. How wrong they were.Featuring a new Left-wing British Prime Minister committed to scrapping the Trident missile fleet, a Russian President meddling in foreign elections and a U.S. President determined to put his country first, it feels astonishingly contemporary.The plot revolves around a Trident submarine captain and his Admiral father intent on ensuring Britain keeps its nuclear options open, a newspaper reporter and a secretary in the Defence office who falls into a honeytrap set by Russian intelligence.Fast-moving and immensely prescient, there are echoes of the early works of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth — and that is no faint praise.The tragedy is that it remained hidden in the author’s attic for 34 years. Let us hope he has time to write many more.

215 pages, Paperback

Published August 3, 2017