Pacino seems to have suffered so much trauma, that it begs the question – did the author suffer similarly? What have you gone through to make Pacino so gloomy?
I think the background of my novels is darkness, and the reason Pacino is a hero to me is that he labors through the losses and misery anyway. In Voyage of the Devilfish he was cocky and almost arrogant until Adm. Donchez tells him the real story of his father’s death on the ill-fated Stingray, presumed lost in mid-Atlantic from an accident but torpedoed by the Russian Northern Fleet in retaliation for a collision loss. By book’s end he’s nearly paralyzed with pain, which is how Attack of the Seawolf opens, and in the rescue of the Tampa he begins to get his sealegs back (Seawolf is really an allegory of something that happened to me — all that stuff they taught in English Lit about themes and the underlying meaning — it’s true), but in Phoenix Sub Zero the loss of the USS Seawolf and the beginning of Pacino’s failing marriage are too much and the book ends with him in a hospital, unconscious. Look at the dedication in Phoenix — “To every man who’s gone down into the darkness.” Leav
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