Please….Admiral Morgan….one more time….PLEASE !

I am an avid reader of your books and have just finished Scimitar SL 2 for the second time as the volcano at Cumbre Viega was recently the subject of a documentary on Dicovery channel( I think)
There has been a slippge of about 5 metres along the fault line and it doesnt look to healthy!
However, and I hesitate to nitpick, one fact that did confuse me was at hte beginning of Chapter 7 page 263 when the Barracuda was 25 miles south of Cape Horn moving through the Drake passge having concluded their Southward journey – line 2 states the course was 270 – should it not have been course 090 due East as para 2 states “they had made good speed….. and were now headed East” ?
is this correct?
Thanks for many hours of great reading
Peter Whipp
Cape Town
South Africa

I love your stories about submarines. Hope you will write more of this genre.

I just went back in time and read “Slider”. As a former wannabe, i ws really into this story. At age 76 I can still feel the game and the excitement it brings forth.

Warm regards, Richard

Iran warns to block strait of Hormuz if sanctions applied –
http://www.khaama.com/iran-warns-to-block-hormuz-strait-if-sanctions-applied-253
I need a coffee, black with buckshot, and if you teach master classes on world politics I would happily take one of those also.

Your foresight is a sharp as a blade and your imagination is gripping.
Keep up the good work,
Westy

I have read and thoroughly enjoyed your Naval books. At the time I read them, I enjoyed them as ‘good reading’. Now as time has passed since I read them, world events seem to have caught up to your books and showed your excellent perception as how things may pan out. I am impressed with your research and knowledge of the United States Navy and their various functions, particularly the Navy Seals. (‘Lone Survivor’ is a book I will always remember and for those who want a real good read about the Seal history and training, read ‘Rogue Warrior” by Richard Marcinko and ‘Warrior Elite’ by Dick Couch, both former Seals). But what I have noticed recently is the foresight your books have shown. I just read an AOL article that the Chinese Navy has their first carrier now going through sea trials. This carrier is one they bought from the former Soviet Union called the Varyag, unfinished, with no engines, weaponry or navigation systems. They hope to have it operational by next year but without aircraft. Thet claim this carrier is for training purposes but it s believed it will be used as a copy to build more.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you,

Wayne Phillips

I’ve read them all, and await the next one. They are great stories, and usually the technology is convincing. Either you, or your editor, has been careless in The Delta Solution in the use of the phrase knots per hour. I don’t remember ever having seen this error before in your books. And you have done it right thousands of times. Let me explain to whoever does not understand.

Knot is a unit of speed; one knot is one nautical mile per hour, about 15% faster than one statute mile per hour. On page 48, paragraph 5, the pilot set the Orion’s speed at 400 knots, not knots per hour. On page 205, paragraph 4, the pirates were closing on the Mustang at 10 knots, not knots per hour.

Knots per hour is a unit of rate of change of speed, or acceleration. I don’t remember ever having seen it in print being used correctly. When a ship leaves port and clears the sea buoy, she accelerates to her cruise speed. If she sped up from 10 knots to 25 knots in 30 minutes, she accelerated at 30 knots per hour. A Navy fighter on a steam catapult might go from a standstill to 150 knots in 3 seconds. It accelerated at 50 knots per second which calculates to 180,000 knots per hour.

While I’m nit picking, here’s one more. On page 257, paragraph 3, the Ocean Princess drew 170 feet. Where in the world can she pull up to a dock? And ships aren’t wide; they have beam.

Thanks again for all the good stuff. I hope I have cleared up a mystery for you.

Dick Parker