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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode, The Danger Close Podcast, is brought to you by Bravo Company Manufacturing. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to this special bonus episode of the Jack Car Danger Close Podcast, |
0:12.4 | an early access narration of Ray Porter, |
0:14.5 | reading the prologue to my latest novel, |
0:16.4 | Red Sky Morning. |
0:17.3 | Enjoy. |
0:18.1 | Prologue. |
0:20.1 | Chang-Seng, Jin Class Type 094 Submarine |
0:25.0 | 38 degrees 48 minutes 95 seconds north, 174 degrees 48 minutes 32 seconds west Pacific Ocean 1,767 |
0:36.4 | nautical miles northwest of Hawaii. |
0:40.7 | Commander Lou Jen of the People's Liberation Navy had given his crew the order to change course four days earlier. |
0:48.0 | The Chinese Jin-class submarine had last surfaced north of Japan in the Sea of Ochotsk and received an |
0:55.6 | encrypted high priority message from the commander of the North Sea Fleet. |
0:59.4 | The message had been routed from the Chairman of the Central Military Commission through the PLA Joint Staff Department. |
1:07.0 | In all his years at sea, he had never read a message that originated at the level of chairman. |
1:13.8 | That meant it came directly from the president. |
1:17.6 | The message simply ordered Commander Jen to open a safe, one that could be opened only with the concurrence of and physical keys from his executive |
1:26.8 | and political officers. |
1:29.6 | Even before they read the order, Jen knew what it was going to say. They had been ordered to start a war. |
1:37.9 | Jen slowly inhaled the soothing warmth of his chungwa cigarette in violation of his own orders regarding smoking while |
1:45.3 | underway. He closed his eyes, savoring the slight taste of plum in a cigarette that was |
1:52.0 | rumored to have been a favorite of Chairman Mao. |
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