Rites of War C. A. Mobley 1998

In the Yellow Sea, a German U-boat takes aim and fires its torpedoes. a North Korean Submarine is destroyed. Then a US command ship is attacked. Four days later, America's military forces are deployed - in the first retaliatory act of world war iii... A chilling scenario of the ultimate military crisis, Rites of War portrays the sudden rise of a new Germany in the post-Cold War. National Security agent Jerusha Baily is scheduled for two weeks of active duty in England when all hell breaks loose. America and North Korea hold each other accountable for the torpedo attacks in the Yellow Sea. but Bailey, with her background in geopolitics, senses a hidden strategy behind the international incident. As warships converge across the globe, the command of the USS Ramage falls into Bailey's hands. So, too, does the fate of the world. For she alone must go one-on-one with the brilliant commander of a german U-boat... and prevent a full-scale war unlike anything the world has ever seen