The question is... will the author's name remain a mystery, as has the name of author of 'The Caravan' all these years?
(For his sake - and his family's, if he has one - I hope so.)
Very well done. The Stefan bits were cruelly on target.
My guess the author is an Airbus dude, or we've have had the aft torpedo tube and "torpedoes los!" squeezed somewhere into the dialogue.