Operation White Out
A Mac McDowell Mission (A Mac McDowell Mission Series)
by Robert G. Williscroft
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Pub Date 20 Jan 2023 | Archive Date 5 May 2023
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Description
Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying SOSUS arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica.
Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak.
Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island andis tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89.
Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain?
Advance Praise
"Operation White Out may be the best novel in the outstanding Mac McDowell series. Now the Executive Officer of the USS Teuthis, Mac is at the center of a sweeping adventure story. He travels to Falkland Island where his ship completes an acoustic array designed to identify passing Soviet ships. From there he and the crew continue on a ""7,800 nautical mile trek"" into the Antarctic that leads to Thurston Island and back. Along the way Mac encounters danger, romance, spies, betrayal, deep-sea rescues on the ocean floor, hostile Chinese submarines as well as a Taiwan sub, cat-and-mouse strategic duels with enemy ships, and a lovable, six-ton Orca named Borysko, who follows them and keeps popping up unexpectedly in the most surprising places. Ultimately Mac's mission leads north to Taiwan where it builds to a shattering climax and a final surprise.
As with previous novels in the series, Operation White Out offers the closest literary approximation to real submarine experience during the Cold War. If you want to know what it was like, read this book, and consult the excellent maps, glossary, and submarine pictures for clarification. At times I almost felt I was onboard the Teuthis and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Mystic. This experience is enhanced by the author's often stripped-down style. Going light on adjectives, he skips transitional passages, bringing the reader closer to actual submarine activity. It's an adventure not to be missed.
- Professor John B. Rosenman, Norfolk State University
Former Chairman of the Board, Horror Writers Association
Author of The Inspector of the Cross Series
The fourth in Robert G. Williscroft's Cold War submarine adventures, Operation White Out, picks up with Mac McDowell still hurting, physically and emotionally, from the events at the end of Operation Arctic Sting. That doesn't stop him from taking up the XO position on the USS Teuthis on a trip to the other side of the world from his previous adventures, to Antarctica.
This time, in addition to their scheduled, clandestine, duties, Mac's dive team and the DSRV Mystic exercise what until now had just been a cover story: rescuing crew from a downed sub. Of course, this being a Mac McDowell story, it's a little more complicated than just that. Fast action, enemy and allied subs, attractive women, spies, and (Ant)arctic exploits—Operation White Out has all the hallmarks of another great Williscroft novel.
- Alastair Mayer
Author of the T-Space Series
I was mesmerized by this remarkable tale of derring-do.
- Captain George W. Jackson USN (Ret.)
Author of the Sheppard alternate history novels
Operation White Out is a fascinating adventure inside a nuclear submarine, including international political intrigue and life-and-death undersea conflict, punctuated with humor and a splash of romance. A thoroughly entertaining read and highly recommended, particularly for fans of military drama and anyone who ever served on a sub.
- Kevin G. Chapman
Author of Lethal Voyage
Winner of the 2021 Kindle Book Award."
