Exclusive First Listen: CRY HAVOC — Chapter 1

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The countdown to October 7, 2025, continues. Jack Carr’s most visceral novel yet—CRY HAVOC—is almost here. Chapter 1 captures one of the most dramatic real-world flashpoints of the Cold War - the 1968 seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korean forces. This moment in history becomes the spark that thrusts Tom Reece into a world of war, espionage, and sacrifice. Brought to life by the legendary voice of Ray Porter, this exclusive excerpt places you on the icy waters of the Sea of Japan—where a naval standoff becomes the opening shot in a shadow war that threatens to bring the world to the brink. “Cry ‘Havoc!,’ and let slip the frogs of war.” Buy the audiobook, https://bit.ly/CryHavocAudio Order your copy of CRY HAVOC, HERE. Copyright: Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from CRY HAVOC by Jack Carr, read by Ray Porter. Copyright © 2025 by Tomahawk Creative, Inc. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. FOLLOW SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Instagram:@simon.audio TikTok: @simon.audio Threads: @simon.audio X: @SimonAudio Facebook: @SimonAudio FOLLOW RAY PORTER Instagram:@the.ray.porter Facebook: @NarratorRayPorter FOLLOW JACK CARR Instagram: @JackCarrUSA X: @JackCarrUSA Facebook: @JackCarr YouTube: @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing - https://bravocompanyusa.com/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr: Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This episode of the Danger Close podcast is brought to you by Cry Havoc,
0:04.2	from New York Times number one bestselling author, Jack Carr.
0:08.6	Cry Havoc, a Tom Rees thriller. Order Now.
0:16.8	Chapter 1
0:19.0	Four months earlier.
0:28.4	USS Pueblo off the coast of Wonsan, North Korea, January 23rd, 1968.
0:40.3	The USS Pueblo had departed Yokosuka, Japan on January 5th. Commander Lloyd M. Pete Buker had decided on the southern route to avoid the notoriously rough winter seas north of Hokkaido.
0:43.5	The Pueblo first sailed south for Kushoe Island and then adjusted course north for Sasebo,
0:50.3	where the United States maintained a naval base.
0:53.6	There they had refueled and taken on additional provisions
0:56.4	along with classified publications and documents to assist in their mission.
1:02.1	Officially, an auxiliary cargo ship, light.
1:05.8	The USS Pueblo was, in reality, a spy ship.
1:10.0	It was one of a proposed 70 ships commissioned under Operation
1:14.6	Click Beetle, a program conceived as a way to observe and report on Soviet ship and submarine
1:20.6	movements while collecting their electronic transmissions. Commander Booker was only aware of
1:26.6	three ships commissioned under the program to date.
1:30.3	His ship's cover was as an oceanographic research vessel, though its mass of intricate antenna
1:36.3	arrays indicated it might have other motives.
1:39.3	At 176 feet long and a top speed of 13 knots, it did not look like a United States naval vessel.
1:47.1	In fact, it hardly looked seaworthy.
1:50.6	The Pueblo first hit the water in 1944 as a United States Army freight and passenger ship,
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