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"""An interesting story centered around an actual event during World War II namely submarine (U-boat) operations and clandestine landings of Nazi agents and saboteurs along our coasts. Set in the backdrop of a post-depression south Florida oil-boom town and in the depths of WWII, the author used his lifetime experiences in the petroleum industry to highlight the story of characters in a town situated between the Gulf Coast and the Everglades and a disabled U-boat trying to escape the Gulf of Mexico and reach its supply vessel to finish its mission. From my perspective, I enjoyed the read because of the actual historic event and the detail concerning oil drilling. As a writer and a reader, I relish being introduced to new information and the writings of others, and the author's knowledge of oil drilling did not disappoint."" -- Wayne Abrahamson US Navy, retired, MAs in Anthropology and History, Author of Black Silver and Sergeant Dooley and The Submarine Raiders"

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Stephen O. Sears grew up in South Florida, boating and fishing off the Florida Keys and in the Everglades. He studied geology at the University of Florida and earned a PhD in geochemistry from Penn State. Following a career as a petroleum geologist with Shell Oil in Texas, California, and Louisiana, Sears joined the faculty of the LSU Petroleum Engineering Department in 2005. Sears' interest in the German U-Boat campaign originated in 2001, when he was on an oil field vessel that discovered the sunken U-166, on the Gulf of Mexico seafloor in mile-deep water near the wreck of the torpedoed freighter Robert E Lee. The author of over forty technical, scientific, and general interest publications on geology, engineering, and higher education, Stephen O. Sears lives with his wife, Barbara, in Mandeville, Louisiana.

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