In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize.
He passed away in 1986..
About the Author: Frank Herbert is the author of the 1965 science fiction classic, Dune .
A gripping novel by the legendary author of Dune . and themselves. . .
Hunted relentlessly by the enemy, the four men find themselves isolated in a claustrophobic undersea prison, struggling for survival against the elements .
Sabotage and suspicion soon plague the mission, as Ramsay discovers that the stress of fighting a war a mile and a half under the ocean exposes every weakness in a man.
His mission is to covertly observe the remainder of the four-man crew--and find the traitor among them.
Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply cracking under the pressure? Psychologist John Ramsay has gone undercover aboard a Hell Diver subtug.
But the last twenty missions have never returned.
Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East\'s continental shelf.
In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize
