Mission Mururoa

About the Book

The scene is set when Lazarus Tretiiak, a Physics Professor and four of his students at the French University of the Pacific in Tahiti decide to hijack an advanced deep-ocean submersible and its research vessel.  The activists are determined to use the submersible to photograph the Mururoa Atoll near Tahiti to prove to the world that dangerous radionucleides from previous atomic testing are leaking into the South Pacific.

To force the commander of the submersible tender, Admiral Alain Gagnon, to travel to the Mururoa Atoll the activists involve the Admiral´s stepdaughter, Terri´i.  The result is a fast-pitched adventure matching Jacques L´Amareau, Head of the French equivalent of the CIA against the ringleader of the nuclear protestors.

About the Author

Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D. is a retired School Psychologist whose interests include Identity Achievement (who am I and what am I going to do with my life) in Adolescence. After a visit to Hawaii in 1988 she hypothesized that the Identity Achievement task would be more complicated in a multi-cultural population. The result has been five novels dealing with Identity Achievement in Hawaii. The other four novels include “An End To Innocence,” set in Hilo, “Aloha And MaiTais,” about Honolulu entertainers in the 1930's, “Kuhina Nui,” about King Kamehameha’s favorite wife, and “Kula Keiki Ali’i,” about the Chief’s Children’s School that in 1840 educated the children who would become monarchs of Hawaii.