THE TEMPEST TOSS

A 1962 nuclear detonation above the Pacific. A weapon perfected in silence for sixty years. And a single day that changes everything — when the Port of Tampa erupts and a Navy SEAL Commander must hunt a threat that was hiding in plain sight.

“Some debts take sixty years to come due.”

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Clearance: Top Secret // SCI

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Mission Briefing

A Sixty-Year Conspiracy

In 1962, a nuclear explosion over the Pacific disables every circuit on a Soviet spy ship. The Americans call their discovery Tempest and spend the next sixty years developing it into a weapon.

By 2022, a terrorist attack devastates the Port of Tampa, killing six thousand Americans. Navy SEAL Commander John Hunter narrowly escapes. What he uncovers in the aftermath suggests a conspiracy much deeper than anyone in Washington cares to acknowledge.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, a Chinese freighter is running dark. Two nuclear missiles. One traitor already inside the wire.

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Operative Profile

Peter P.

Peter P. spent twenty-two years researching and writing The Tempest Toss, drawing on the United States Coast Guard's Authors Program, declassified Cold War history, and a scientist's insistence on getting the physics right.

A chemist with a Master of Science from Georgia Tech, he brought the same rigor to the EMP threat that he has spent thirty years applying to complex technical problems. He lives in Texas — close enough to the border to watch the real war being fought there, and close enough to the truth to know what fiction can say that the official record cannot.

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Five Books. One Mission.