Carrier: Brink of War: Brink of War by Keith Douglass
Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and the USS Jefferson are sent in to win the post-Cold War by cozying up to Russia. Washington calls the airmanship competition a "cooperative engagement." But to Magruder, it's a fiasco...Still searching for his father -- who may be alive somewhere in Russia -- Magruder doesn't have time for games. And then Russia launches an all-out surprise attack on the Jefferson -- and changes the rules...