File Ref: JH-001 // Operation Tempest
The John Hunter Series
The Tempest Toss
Navy SEAL Commander John Hunter. Cold War secrets. A conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.
The Tempest
Toss
Some Debts Take Sixty Years to Come Due.
Classification: Top Secret // NOFORN
File: The Tempest Toss — John Hunter Series, Book 1
July 9, 1962. A Thor missile carrying a 1.45-megaton warhead detonates 250 miles above Johnston Island in the South Pacific. The test — code-named Starfish Prime — is meant to study high-altitude nuclear effects. What it reveals is something far more dangerous: a single detonation can kill every unshielded circuit within line of sight.
Sixty years later, the science perfected in secret becomes a nightmare made real. A coordinated terrorist attack erupts across the Port of Tampa during the Gasparilla festival — fuel terminals detonated, a tanker ship destroyed, a cruise liner with 3,500 passengers caught in the blast radius. Six thousand dead in minutes.
Navy SEAL Commander John Hunter — fifteen years of special operations, stationed at USSOCOM headquarters, MacDill Air Force Base — is caught in the attack with his family on the Crosstown Expressway. What begins as survival becomes a hunt, as Hunter discovers the port strike was only the opening move in something far larger: a weapon system hidden not in a warhead, but in the infrastructure itself.
The Dark Territory Protocol. Pre-positioned. Patient. And already inside the wire.
Distribution: Authorized Personnel Only
Ref: Dark Territory Protocol — Eyes Only
Series
John Hunter
Book
1 of 5
Chapters
27
Author
Peter P.
Status
Coming Fall 2026
What Readers Expect
The Tempest Toss is a military thriller grounded in real science and declassified history. The electromagnetic pulse threat at the heart of the story isn't fiction—it's drawn from sixty years of classified weapons research most Americans have never heard of.
Peter P. spent twenty-two years mastering every detail. A chemist's precision meets a storyteller's instinct. Characters you believe. Operations that ring true.
This is Jack Carr territory: authentic, brutal, uncompromising.
Core Themes
Cold War Legacy and Its Modern Consequences
The EMP Threat and Weapons Science
Navy SEAL Operations and Military Authenticity
Government Conspiracies and Domestic Terrorism
What Fiction Can Say That the Official Record Cannot
Operations Dossier
The Complete
John Hunter Series
Four more books planned. Book 2 in development. The hunt continues.
Coming Soon
Protocol 02
Title TBA — 2027
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Protocol 03
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Operations Dossier
Series Timeline
A five-book military thriller series. Navy SEAL Commander John Hunter. Cold War conspiracies. Modern threats. One man's fight against enemies unseen.
The Tempest Toss
Navy SEAL Commander John Hunter survives a devastating terrorist attack on Tampa and uncovers a sixty-year conspiracy rooted in Cold War EMP weapons research. With a Chinese freighter running dark in the Gulf and a traitor inside the wire, the race to prevent catastrophe begins.
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Coming Fall 2026
The Tempest Toss will be available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook across all major platforms.
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