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Rear Admiral Thomas Edward 'Tom' Parrish is a fictional character from the SPECTRUM series of novels, written by bestselling author Aiden J. Depiazzi. Parrish featured in eighteen of the twenty SPECTRUM novels, absent from two sequels featuring Parrish's daughter Sarah instead. In most of the novels featuring Parrish and the covert SPECTRUM agency, Parrish holds the rank of 'commander' and, in the later novels, 'captain'. Other than a late sequel set decades later, he is never referred to as an admiral.
[edit] Fictional Biography
Tom Parrish was born in Melbourne, Australia on June 15th 1973, to Australian Army Major Eric Mark Parrish and Dr Katherine Parrish (nee MacMillan). At age 5 (in 1978), Parrish's parents were murdered by an assassin hired by a Chinese terrorist group, after Major Parrish - who worked for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service - uncovered information about a planned attack on Canberra. The assassin confronted Tom, but left him alive.
Parrish was then taken to the United States, to live in Washington DC with his aunt Ellen and uncle Edward. From age 7, he attended the fictional Winton Hills College, and graduated from the 12th grade in 1990. He enlisted in the US Navy, and they funded his study at Georgetown University from 1991 to 1994. In 1994 he entered an NROTC officer-training corps, and graduated as an ensign in 1995. He did a two-year intelligence course at the US Naval Academy, and after graduating in early 1997, was transferred - as a lieutenant junior grade to the Office of Naval Intelligence. In 1999, as a lieutenant, he proved himself in field combat and was again transferred, this time to the US Navy SEALs. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 2004, after thirteen years' service, but in 2006 he semi-retired after a costly mistake had his entire team killed in Bosnia.
Parrish was then approached by Dr Napoleon William 'Bill' Fischer, Ph.D., the National Security Agency's deputy director. Fischer told him that he had created a new, secret intelligence outfit called 'SPECTRUM', formed within the NSA. Fischer sends Parrish to Panama, to confront a defected US Air Force colonel, and when Parrish accomplishes his mission and returns, Fischer orchestrates his promotion to commander and his secondment to the NSA.
Until 2012, Parrish served as a commander at SPECTRUM, often working with the SEALs and always with his friend and SPECTRUM's liaison in the FBI, Senior Special Agent Jacob Princeton. In 2012, he was promoted to captain, but in 2013 another costly mistake had him severely injured. He retired to a desk job, and was made rear admiral (lower) in 2017. In 2020, a year before his thirty-year service was over, he was promoted rear admiral (upper), and put in charge of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He retired in 2021, at age 48, but continued working as a civilian until 2030, when he retired permanently at age 57.
Rear Admiral Tom Parrish was murdered in 2032 by Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan J. Barnaby, a former officer in the US Marine Corps, whom Parrish considered his rival and had imprisoned in 2011. Having served his 20-year sentence for treason, Barnaby was released and tracked Parrish to his house in the mountains of New York. Barnaby killed Parrish, and soon after Jake Princeton - who had been promoted Director of the FBI - shoots and kills Barnaby.
