Roger R. Ellis, Esq.

AK 239

^{THE ENEMY IS ALREADY HERE}

Thank You

First, to my Russian friends, all who wish to remain anonymous:

Please accept my most sincere and deepest apologies for my poor translations, incorrect numberings and spelling.

I’m sorry but you guys have a really, really weird language, alphabet and numbering system!

But thank you for your truly valuable insights into your fascinating and rich culture.

Without your help this book would not have been possible.

With over one million of your websites blocked, you are much more brave than me.

Thank you!

And saying thank you to some very special people by name seems also to be quite trite, without whose assistance this book would not have been possible.

Many people were legally not able to be named individually or were too humble, you know who you are and thank you.

Except for my family, they are not in any particular order and I certainly don’t mean to slight anyone not higher on the list.

All of you are at the top of my list and I can’t thank you enough:

My editor in chief (and wife): Mary

My children: Robert, Rebecca & Bethany

John Dunham 1957-2016

Ruth Ann Dyke Zirkle

Jeanne Petrie Lampi

Michelle Masden

Pilot/Owner Island Wings Air Service

Ketchikan, Alaska

Chief Jeremy Kastner

United States Coast Guard

Robert Richter, M.D.

Don Burgess, Ph.D.

Pepper O’ Shaughnessy

Captain Ken Curry

Former USAF, B-52 Aircraft Commander

Special thanks to: Norman Polmar

United States Navy

United States Special Operations Command

United States Naval Institute

Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

United States Forest Service

United States Geological Survey

All the good people at:

Inn at Creek Street and the New York Hotel

Ketchikan, Alaska

Richard Bass 1929-2015

In Memorium

^{John Dunham 1957-2016}

^{My best friend}

Principals — Cast

Principal Characters in Bold

^{In Order of Appearance}

Captain Valentin Vasili

Commanding officer, Severstal, TK-20

Admiral Victor Perchinkov

Minister of Defence, Russia

Ivan Mironovich

President of Russia

Kapitan-Leytenant Casmerov

Kapitan-Leytenant — 3^rd Rank, TK-20

Kapitan Nikolai Alexi

Kapitan, 2^nd Rank, TK-20

Olga Kasparov

Anchor, Russian TV-12

John Denning (“JD”)

FBI, Special Agent; Former BMCS

SEAL Team Six

Mohammed Al-Aqsa (MAA)

Engineering student

Portland State University

Tom Watson (CCO)

Chief Communication’s Officer

USS Alaska

Jennifer Tavana (FBI)

Former Lieutenant Commander

USS Alaska

Tad Murphy

Seaman, Sonar Technician, ST

USS Alaska (And an idiot)

Fred Turner

National Security Agency

Satellite Analyst

Jerry Fredricks

National Security Agency

Data Systems Specialist

Jack Tanner

Captain of The Black Pearl

Fisherman

Mike Gardener

First Mate, The Black Pearl

Tom Watkins

FBI, Special Agent

Yusef Abdullah

Portland Restaurant Owner

Friend of JD’s

Sally Abdullah

Wife of Yusef Abdullah

General Petrov Andropov

Russian General, Siloviki Clan

General Sergei Aleksandrov

Russian General, Siloviki Clan

General Aleksandr Bortnikov

Russian General, Siloviki Clan

Viktor Sokolov

Assistant to President Mironovich

Nikolai Alexi

TK-20 Kapitan, 2^nd Rank

Dmitri Rostislav

TK-20, Sonar Officer

George Ruddy, Ph.D.

Former Mathematics Professor,

Harvard University

Robert S. Stone

Police Chief, Ketchikan, Alaska

Yura Stone

Wife of Police Chief

Emergency 911 Supervisor

Tony Stone

Police Officer

Son of Robert Stone

Vladimir Peskov

Sr. Scientist, RUS

Russia Uranium Specialty Company

Bert (‘P’ man) Parks

Lieutenant Commander, USS Alaska

Al Reynolds

Mining Claim Holder

Bokan Mountain, AK

Tatiana Ivanov

Medical Doktor (MD)

Moscow, Russia

General Victor Zelin

General, Russian Ministry of Defense

Katrina (The Wolf) Volkov

Girlfriend of George Ruddy

James McMillan

Officer of the Deck,

USS Ronald Reagan, Aircraft Carrier

Captain George Murray

Captain of the USS Ronald Reagan

Commander Orlov

Russian GRU Special Forces

Brigadier General Bahadur,

Iranian Defense Forces

Jimmy Thomas

Pilot, Ketchikan, Alaska

Boris Babkin

Russian Fortress Designer

Bokan Mountain

General Norton

General, USAF Aerospace

Defense Command Center

Peterson AFB, Colorado

John A. (Skull) Smith

FBI Hostage Rescue Team

(HRT) Gold Team Leader

Admiral Kenneth Baker

Rear Admiral, United States Navy

Stacy Macavoy

Anchor, ABC 7, Anchorage

Alaska News Today

Wayne Christian

Reporter, ABC 7, Anchorage

Alaska News Today

Andrew Gibbs

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army

John Anderson

Senior American Diplomat

Andrei Alexeev

Senior Russian Diplomat

Acronyms

^{In Alphabetical Order}

AOAIA

Advanced Oceanography

Acoustic Intelligence Analysis

APKWS

Advanced Precision Kill

Weapon System

ASW

Anti-Submarine Warfare

ASWOC

Anti-Submarine Warfare