Rick Campbell

Nexus House

1 - The Final Stand (Apr-2025)
2 - Descent into Hellios (Jul-2025)

Trident Deception

1 - The Trident Deception (Mar-2014)
2 - Empire Rising (Feb-2015)
3 - Ice Station Nautilus (Jul-2016)
4 - Blackmail (Jul-2017)
4.5 - Power Play (Jan-2019)
5 - Treason (Mar-2019)
6 - Deep Strike (Mar-2021)
7 - The Bin Laden Plot (Apr-2024)
8 - Vengeance (Dec-2025)

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  The Trident Deception
  

  • Mar-2014
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  Trident Deception - 1
  

  The USS Kentucky -- a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads -- is about to go on a routine patrol. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving...

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  Empire Rising
  

  • Feb-2015
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  Trident Deception - 2
  

  After a long, secret military buildup, China launches a swift and deadly attack on Taiwan. But that's only their first move in a much deadlier game. In Rick Campbell's thrilling Empire Rising, Xiang Chenglei, Chinese president and party secretary,...

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  Ice Station Nautilus
  

  • Jul-2016
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  Trident Deception - 3
  

  Russia's new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America's newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads under the polar ic...

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  Blackmail
  

  • Jul-2017
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  Trident Deception - 4
  

  A bold military and political strike by the Russian government leaves the U.S. reeling, crippled and vulnerable, with only a desperate long shot chance to avoid a devastating world war. The U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the Western Pacific Ocea...

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  Power Play
  

  • Jan-2019
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  Trident Deception - 4.5
  

  Power Play, a thrilling new Trident Deception short story by Rick Campbell. The Russians have their newest class of nuclear attack submarine and is taking it, K-561 Kazan, on a shakedown cruise. Unbeknownst to them, however, this new submarine is bei...

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  Treason
  

  • Mar-2019
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  Trident Deception - 5
  

  A military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories -- while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond -- in this classic military technothriller. In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its military strengt...

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  Deep Strike
  

  • Mar-2021
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  Trident Deception - 6
  

  The U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine―funded by ISIS―en route to launch a missile attack against the east coast of the U.S. A shoulder-launched missile attack on a convoy of vehicles leaving the U.N. headquarte...

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  The Bin Laden Plot
  

  • Apr-2024
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  Trident Deception - 7
  

  In Rick Campbell's next technothriller, The Bin Laden Plot, a U.S. destroyer is torpedoed by an Iranian submarine and Captain Murray Wilson of the U.S.S. Michigan is flown to the Pentagon to meet with the Secretary of the Navy (SecNav).There Wilson l...

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  The Final Stand
  

  • Apr-2025
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  Nexus House - 1
  

  In the 31st century, humanity stands on the precipice of extinction.The human colonies throughout the galaxy have been decimated by the relentless assault of the Korilian Empire, leaving Earth as the final refuge. Humankind's last hope rests on the t...

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  Descent into Hellios
  

  • Jul-2025
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  Nexus House - 2
  

  From beyond her grave, a hero's final transmission could turn the tide of a galactic war.Three years after humanity's Final Stand against the Korilian Empire, the Colonial Defense Forces have largely reclaimed the lost colonies. However, as the tide ...

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  Vengeance
  

  • Dec-2025
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  Trident Deception - 8
  

  The “heir to Clancy’s throne” (The Real Book Spy) returns with his most compelling, explosive techno-thriller ever.Despite decades of treaties, military missions, and covert actions devoted to preventing it, Iran has finally assembl...

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