Empire Rising (57 page)
Authors: Rick Campbell
For all of the above, I apologize. I did my best to keep everything as close to real life as possible while developing a suspenseful, page-turning novel. Hopefully it all worked out, and you enjoyed reading
Empire Rising
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RICK CAMPBELL
, a retired navy commander, spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine's nuclear warheadâtipped missiles. Campbell is the author of
The Trident Deception
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CONTENTS
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
EMPIRE RISING.
Copyright © 2015 by Rick Campbell. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover photo-illustration by Steve Gardner/Pixelworks Studios, Inc.
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-04046-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-3580-1 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466835801
First Edition: February 2015