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A pair of former industrial and government contract engineers from Florida, Greg and Harry, our lead characters, are called to Washington by a Senator that is their old friend and asked to do some research probing the WWII German war records at the University of Leipzig in East Germany. What the Senator finally reveals is that a WWII German submarine has been located in the Hudson River just north of New York City near West Point. How the sub got there takes our team on a path from the German shipyard that built the sub circa 1944 to the Hudson River. With the help of the Senator a new Navy Bureau is formed, the Archival Research Bureau, and Greg and Harry are hired to run the Bureau. The Navy's primary reason for hiring our non-government team to run the new Bureau is to distance the Navy and political Washington from the potential negative PR if the submarine turns to be booby trapped, is operated by a foreign government as a listening post, or just because a WWII German submarine is in the Hudson River 50 years after the end of the war which is an embarrassment unto itself. Along the way the sub comes alive and a sea chase goes from New York City to a point south. Woven into the story is how the sub was used in 1945 to smuggle part of the Third Reich Central Bank gold reserve out of Germany at the end of the war. The sub turns out to be one that was designed to transport high German government officials and cargo out of Germany if the war goes bad for Germany.
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Byron Ellison is an electronics engineer who spent the first sixteen years of his professional career with RCA and the U.S. Government. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War as an electronics instructor at the Naval Air Technical Training Command. After RCA assignments at White Sands Mission Range and Cape Canaveral, he was a contract engineer with NASA's Mercury Project, the Navy Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range [AFWR] in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and served for five years as the Project Planning Engineer for the Navy Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center [AUTEC]. Thereafter he changed careers. He was the owner of a Beechcraft Aircraft dealership in Ft. Lauderdale and later CEO of several small commercial airlines operating wide body jets in the Western Hemisphere and Trans-Atlantic Passenger and cargo scheduled and charter service. In a third change-of-career he has spent the last twenty years as a financial consultant and turn-around specialist in the federal bankruptcy system. Between these careers, in the early 1970's he headed the Investment Banking side of two South Florida stock brokerage firms. He has been a licensed pilot for over fifty seven years with experience in single and multi engine land and sea aircraft as well as gliders. For the last thirty nine years he has been married to the former Barbara-Ann Patton of Baltimore, Maryland, and as a result of both of their previous marriages they have eight children, twelve grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. He has been a part-time writer for over fifty five years, originally writing for technical publications while with RCA and the government, later for financial and airline publications and most recently ventured into writing fiction.
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