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Fairly good submarine novel. A terrorist seeks to fire a missile into the crater of a volcano on the Canary Islands, creating a giant mega-tsunami that will devastate both the West Coast of Europe and the East Coast of the USA. Admiral Morgan has to try to find him. A book that has a lot going on, but Leggi tutto

As a whole this book is good, it's a solid addition to the Admiral Morgan series. It's got a nice mix of politics, action and intelligence work. There's less undersea action than some of his other books but the story nonetheless does revolve around an Iranian purchased Soviet submarine. The Iranians Leggi tutto

This book is poor. I have read quite a few other Patrick Robinson books and have enjoyed them - but not this one. The characters are paper thin stereotypes. Even the leading characters are one dimensional and predictable - there is zero character development. The authenticity was completely lost due Leggi tutto

This book sucked. The characters were cartoonish, the style was pathetic (I dare someone to count how many sentences in this book begin with the word "And"). Full of stereotypes... I accidentally read one other book by Robinson, but after reading this one, there are more than enough other authors ar Leggi tutto

Farcical to the extreme, even for the military submarine thriller genre.

Another good entry in the Admiral Morgan series by Patrick Robinson. While it flows nicely, it does drag a bit going into minute detail on the complexity of coastal evacuation.

I'm really conflicted about this book. It starts off with so much promise - a great plot and potentially great characters. It holds so much potential. But very soon, it degenerates into a limp, predictable, excruciating read. It is long drawn out, with lots and lots of repetition. It almost feels li Leggi tutto

Probably the worst entry in the Admiral Morgan series. The plot is ludicrous to the extreme. Aside from an excellent quote from Winston Churchill regarding political suicide there is nothing here worth reading.

Just one line from the book sums it up for me "How are we going to find those fucking underwater towelheads?"

This plot is interesting...environmental extortion and the USA held hostage to a "towelhead". The book is marred by multiple errors of fact. For example, the Army NCOs are not called "Senior Chief," a classified EP-3 would not be used for Seattle civilian transportation when Air Force McChord (airli Leggi tutto