SYNOPSIS  
by John J Gobbell

It's 1950 when a Berlin prostitute dies in a bomb blast; her nine-month old identical twin boys become orphans. One twin is adopted by an American army corporal and taken to America. The other is adopted by an NKVD sergeant and raised in what was the Soviet Union.

As young adults, the twins take degrees in naval architecture, then join their naval special forces—Brad Lofton, the American twin, becomes a SEAL; Anton Dobrynyn becomes a Spetsnaz. After active duty, Lofton, designs and builds a revolutionary mini-submarine for use by SEAL teams. Nicknamed Brutus, the sub is an advanced technology swimmer delivery vehicle driven by fuel cells providing a ten thousand mile range at a sustained thirty knots.

Lofton is forced on a solo voyage to Petropavlovsk, Russia’s top secret boomer submarine base on the barren Kamchatka Peninsula. There, Brutus inadvertently broaches. Lofton is captured and confronted by the twin that he never knew that he had——Spetsnaz Lieutenant Colonel Anton Dobrynyn.

Now, eye to eye, Lofton and Dobrynyn discover the drive to preserve their twinship is a bond so strong that it quickly overwhelms their political and social imperatives. Thus, Brad and Anton unite to escape a regime which views their past as a hideous embarrassment -- a past with a secret that can upset a delicate peace between the superpowers.  

FROM THE BLOOD

For 35 years they have been separated by the cold war. Now they are reunited–in a red-hot explosion of high-tech battle. Lofton: naval architect, former SEAL, and renegade. Dobrynyn: brilliant Spetsnaz pointman and outcast. They’re not just the deadliest of enemies. They’re identical twin brothers.

TO THE BATTLE

In a high-tech mini-sub with long legs, Lofton runs a 4,000-mile gauntlet from California to Petropavlovsk, a Russian submarine base on the Kamchatka peninsula. Dobrynyn ignites a fireball against his own side. Then their fight begins...neither of them knowing that their deaths have been ordered at the highest levels.

TO THE BRINK

The hush of betrayal in the halls of Washington...The hammer of enemy sonar on the shell of a mini-sub...The thunder of a long range torpedo...

From the master storyteller John J. Gobbell comes a heart-pounding adventure that races from the Pacific depths to the most extraordinary truth of all.