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Book One — The John Hunter Series
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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Operative Profile
P.S. Parsonson
P.S. Parsonson 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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The Author Behind the Foreword
I’d like to introduce you to Steve Smith and his Stonemont series novels. Steve is the reason I took up writing again. His work is the best in the genre.
— P.S. Parsonson
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“For those rough men and women — past, present, and future — who stand the watch so the rest of us never have to.”
— P.S. Parsonson, Dedication
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
— George Orwell (attributed)
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