Two years after a Soviet initiated nuclear attack on the United States, the war becomes one of attrition and must be resolved beneath the waves. As people on both sides grow tired of the war, they express their dissatisfaction, setting the scene to remove both regimes, one by military coup, the other by political means. 
 
United States Navy LCDR Brent Maddock, Commanding Officer USS Steelhead, becomes a leading force to foil the Soviets’ plan to bring down the American government. He must help his sworn enemy in order to gain details of their secret plans. Crucial for allied success, intelligence gathering and destroying Soviet undersea warfare assets, Maddock must take Steelhead into the North Atlantic beneath the Arctic ice pack. 
 
Unknown to Maddock, he is secretly being hunted by a Russian naval officer, sworn to kill him.  
 
Beyond Silent Battleground is the sequel to Silent Battleground, and is the 6th novel in D.M. Ulmer's Submarine Classics Series.