{"id":124,"date":"2014-04-16T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-04-16T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T01:12:14","slug":"the-komar-incident-launches-on-amazon-kindle-22-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/the-komar-incident-launches-on-amazon-kindle-22-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Komar Incident&#8221; Launches on Amazon Kindle 22 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2014 my newest submarine adventure, &#8220;The Komar Incident,&#8221; dives into the Kindle platform at Amazon.com! Introductory pricing for this 6,000+ word story is $1.99 for its first 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Komar Incident\u201d will place the crew of the USS Whitefish (SS-432) between a rock and a hard place. After an incident involving Cuban patrol boats, the Whitefish is ordered back to base\u00a0by the US Navy. Captain Gus Haynes and his crew will\u00a0not go quietly while a Soviet Foxtrot submarine is on the loose in the Florida Straits&#8211;behind the blockade! This is all framed within the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a fictitious event, but tenser by the minute given the greater political theater of October 1962. There were four Foxtrots the Navy prosecuted during the blockade of Cuba. There was a fifth already in the Caribbean, south of Cuba, but it retired home under tow as a result of an engineering casualty.<\/p>\n<p>What if it didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2cd9b6c2-736e-4c5a-adf8-5b519e04ea5e-188x300.jpeg\" alt=\"The Komar Incident (Draft)\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2cd9b6c2-736e-4c5a-adf8-5b519e04ea5e-188x300.jpeg 188w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2cd9b6c2-736e-4c5a-adf8-5b519e04ea5e-644x1024.jpeg 644w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2cd9b6c2-736e-4c5a-adf8-5b519e04ea5e.jpeg 1588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Komar Incident\u00a0Original Cover Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-komar-cover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alternate Cover\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-komar-cover-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-komar-cover-644x1024.jpg 644w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-komar-cover.jpg 1588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alternate Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2014 my newest submarine adventure, &#8220;The Komar Incident,&#8221; dives into the Kindle platform at Amazon.com! 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