WALTER M:

"U.S. BEWARE"

Following excerpt is from the prologue of "CRUSH DEPTH" by Joe Buff, published
October, 2002:

"In mid 2011, Boer-led reactionaries siezed control in South Africa in the midst of social chaos and restored apartheid. In response to a U.N. trade embargo, the
Boer regime began sinking U.S. and British merchant ships. Coalition forces mobilized, with only Germany holding back. Troops and tanks drained from the
rest of Europe and North America, and a joint task force set sail for Africa--into a
giant, coordinated trap.

There was another coup, in Berlin, and Kaiser Wilhelm's great-grandson was crowned. Ultranationalists, exploiting American unpreparedness for all-out war,
would give Germany her "place in the sun" at last. A secret military-industrial
conspiracy had planned it all for years, brutal opportunists who hated the mediocre
silliness of the European Union as much as they resented America's smug self-infatuation. The kaiser was their figurehead, to legitimize the New Order.
Coercion by the noose won over citizens not swayed by patriotism or the sheer onrush of events.

The Berlin-Boer Axis had covertly built small tactical atomic weapons, the great equalizers in what would otherwise have been a most uneven fight--and once again
America's CIA was clueless. The Axis used the these low-yield A-bombs to ambush the Allied naval task force underway, then destroyed Warsaw and Tripoli.
France surrendered at once, and Continental Europe was overrun. Germany won a strong beachhead in North Africa, while the South African army drove hard toward
them to link up.

Germany grabbed nuclear subs from the French. and advanced diesel submarines from other countries. Some were shared with the Boers. A financially supine
Russia. supposedly neutral yet long a believer in the practicality of limited tactical
nuclear war, sold weapons to the Axis for hard cash. Most of the rest of the world
stayed on the sidelines, biding their time out of fear or greed or both.

American supply convoys to starving Great Britain are being decimated by the modern U-boat threat, in another bloody Battle of the Atlantic. Tens of thousands
of merchant seamen died in the Second World War, and the casualty lists grow very long this time too.

America herself depends both militarily and economically on vulnerable shipping lanes across the vast Pacific Ocean, to neutral Asia and the Persian Gulff. If these
shipping lanes are cut, the U.S. will have no choice but to recognize Axis gains and
sue for an armistice: an Axis victory! America and Great Britian each own one state-of-the-art ceramic-hulled fast attack sub--such as USS CHALLENGER,
capable of tremendous depths--but Germany and South Africa own such vessels too.

Now, in February 2012, high summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the U.S. is on the defensive everywhere, and democracy has never been more threatened, In this terrible new war, with the mid-ocean's surface a killing zone, America's last, best hope for enduring freedom rests with a special breed of fearless undersea warriors ."

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Later,

ROBERT M.