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SSN (novel)
SSN is a techno-thriller novel, created by Tom Clancy and Martin H. Greenberg and published on December 1, 1996, as a tie-in to the video game of the same name. It follows the missions of USS Cheyenne, a United States Navy nuclear attack submarine, during a fictional war between the United States and China over the Spratly Islands. The title references the U.S. Navy hull classification code for a nuclear-powered attack submarine. SSN is the second Clancy novel after Red Storm Rising (1986) that is not set in the Ryanverse.
The book also features the transcript of a discussion of the game with Clancy and former Royal Navy submarine commander Doug Littlejohns, which was held in Greek Island, a former government-owned fallout shelter located in West Virginia. The interview was originally released along with the CD-ROM of the game.
In 1997, former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping dies, creating a power struggle within the Chinese government. Premier Li Peng later takes over in a coup d'etat and orders the arrest of his political rivals, particularly Deng's technical successor Jiang Zemin. He then orders an invasion of the Spratly Islands, where a large oil deposit was recently discovered by an American oil company. A Chinese Han-class submarine attacks the American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, prompting one of her escort submarines to sink the Chinese sub in retaliation and killing everyone aboard. War between the two countries becomes imminent.
USS Cheyenne, a Los Angeles-class submarine commanded by Captain Bartholomew Mackey, deploys from San Diego to Pearl Harbor to join the conflict in the South China Sea. Initially ordered to fire on any Chinese submarines only in self defense, Cheyenne encounters and later sinks a Han-class submarine when the latter fires first. With the war now underway, Mackey bears witness to the sinking of another enemy sub near Pearl Harbor.
Cheyenne is diverted from her initial destination in Pearl Harbor and is ordered to proceed to South China Sea and escort the aircraft carrier USS Independence. Along the way, she sinks a Chinese Luda-class destroyer and its escort Romeo-class submarine, which are in the area to lay mines and attack Independence. She additionally cripples a Chinese task group as well as another Romeo-class sub before meeting with Independence.
Initially assigned as the advance escort for the Independence carrier group, Cheyenne receives orders to proceed to Spratly Islands and destroy a Chinese submarine base there. Along the way, it scores kills on another Luda-class destroyer and two more enemy subs.
Cheyenne meets up with the submarine tender USS McKee in Sulu Sea for supplies and debriefing. Its new orders are to sink any Chinese submarines and surface ships in contact. While managing to destroy one Han-class and three Kilo-class submarines, Mackey discovers the existence of a Russian Alfa-class submarine joining the Chinese.
Cheyenne is once again assigned to patrol duty on the Independence carrier group. Tasked to attack a Chinese surface task group from north of the Spratlys, Mackey prevents two Chinese-crewed Alfa-class submarines from attacking an American frigate USS Ingraham by sinking them. After successfully sinking the surface task group, it later fends off a Ming-class submarine from sinking McKee before meeting up with the latter.
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SSN (novel)
SSN is a techno-thriller novel, created by Tom Clancy and Martin H. Greenberg and published on December 1, 1996, as a tie-in to the video game of the same name. It follows the missions of USS Cheyenne, a United States Navy nuclear attack submarine, during a fictional war between the United States and China over the Spratly Islands. The title references the U.S. Navy hull classification code for a nuclear-powered attack submarine. SSN is the second Clancy novel after Red Storm Rising (1986) that is not set in the Ryanverse.
The book also features the transcript of a discussion of the game with Clancy and former Royal Navy submarine commander Doug Littlejohns, which was held in Greek Island, a former government-owned fallout shelter located in West Virginia. The interview was originally released along with the CD-ROM of the game.
In 1997, former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping dies, creating a power struggle within the Chinese government. Premier Li Peng later takes over in a coup d'etat and orders the arrest of his political rivals, particularly Deng's technical successor Jiang Zemin. He then orders an invasion of the Spratly Islands, where a large oil deposit was recently discovered by an American oil company. A Chinese Han-class submarine attacks the American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, prompting one of her escort submarines to sink the Chinese sub in retaliation and killing everyone aboard. War between the two countries becomes imminent.
USS Cheyenne, a Los Angeles-class submarine commanded by Captain Bartholomew Mackey, deploys from San Diego to Pearl Harbor to join the conflict in the South China Sea. Initially ordered to fire on any Chinese submarines only in self defense, Cheyenne encounters and later sinks a Han-class submarine when the latter fires first. With the war now underway, Mackey bears witness to the sinking of another enemy sub near Pearl Harbor.
Cheyenne is diverted from her initial destination in Pearl Harbor and is ordered to proceed to South China Sea and escort the aircraft carrier USS Independence. Along the way, she sinks a Chinese Luda-class destroyer and its escort Romeo-class submarine, which are in the area to lay mines and attack Independence. She additionally cripples a Chinese task group as well as another Romeo-class sub before meeting with Independence.
Initially assigned as the advance escort for the Independence carrier group, Cheyenne receives orders to proceed to Spratly Islands and destroy a Chinese submarine base there. Along the way, it scores kills on another Luda-class destroyer and two more enemy subs.
Cheyenne meets up with the submarine tender USS McKee in Sulu Sea for supplies and debriefing. Its new orders are to sink any Chinese submarines and surface ships in contact. While managing to destroy one Han-class and three Kilo-class submarines, Mackey discovers the existence of a Russian Alfa-class submarine joining the Chinese.
Cheyenne is once again assigned to patrol duty on the Independence carrier group. Tasked to attack a Chinese surface task group from north of the Spratlys, Mackey prevents two Chinese-crewed Alfa-class submarines from attacking an American frigate USS Ingraham by sinking them. After successfully sinking the surface task group, it later fends off a Ming-class submarine from sinking McKee before meeting up with the latter.