“I’m sure he’ll come up with a great hidden message for them.”
“As long as Jimmy was right and it doesn’t say, ‘Don’t forget the nuke’, we’re all good.”
Bones opened a window to the wheelhouse and gazed out across the waves. “So weird,” he said, contemplating.
“What’s that?”
“A sixteenth century Spanish treasure ship carrying radioactive ore sinks right here, on the same spot that a nuclear bomb sank in a spacecraft four centuries later.”
Dane nodded as he also stared out over the open sea while their vessel plowed toward the Florida coast. “It all worked out pretty good. We completed our mission. The Admiral gets his A-bomb. Streib gets his capsule.”
“We got to destroy two mini-subs!”
“Right, so I was thinking about that. Not sure how happy they’ll be about us leaving Deep Black with the Russians. But it was just you and me out here, on this Top Secret mission. That means we get to write the history here, Bones. So how do we explain coming back with the nuke but without the submersible?”
Bones gazed out across the silver-colored sea. “Chalk up another one for the Bermuda Triangle.”
About the Authors
David Wood is the author of the popular action-adventure series, The Dane Maddock Adventures, as well as several stand-alone works and two series for young adults. Under his David Debord pen name he is the author of the Absent Gods fantasy series. When not writing, he co-hosts the Authorcast podcast. David and his family live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit him online at www.davidwoodweb.com.
Rick Chesler is the author of the popular Tara Shores Thriller series and several other thrillers. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in marine biology and has had a life-long interest in the ocean, its creatures and the people who call it their home. When not at work as a research project manager, he can be found scuba diving or traveling to research his next thriller idea. He currently lives in the Florida Keys with his wife and son. Visit him online at rickchesler.com.