Periscope Red

Signed and inscribed ("Mediacom 1980") by Richard Rohmer on the ffep. Book in excellent condition - unclipped dust jacket shows some wear including a 2-cm tear on the upper back edge.

Nuclear-war brinkmanship--with the US President being secretly manipulated by the USSR. The Arab freighter Mecca at Beirut is commandeered by Said Kassem and his PLO terrorists. Said, a London-educated undercover KGB agent, is assisted by Hassam, a MIT-trained electronics expert--and they attach a limpet mine to an Israeli gunboat, then blow it up by radio signal, destroying several Israeli ships in Haifa harbor. How will the US respond? It's typically fast-paced international action from lawyer-aviator-soldier Richard Rohmer, dean of Canadian intrigue writers.