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Summary: Don't bother
Review: What are the chances that you can find an author AND an editor who see fit to move the White House from 1600 to 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue in the second paragraph of the first chapter? And the book goes downhill after that! The plot is so unbelievable as to strain credulity. Immediately after he moves the White House two blocks, the author has a four-star general involved romantically with an enlisted member of the Navy! Ludicrous. A lieutenant JG might do something that dumb, but a full admiral?
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Summary: great reading
Review: I really enjoyed this book and read it in two days. The only reason I didn't give it a five star rating was that I felt that the Chinese/Taiwan issue was not resolved. But perhaps that is for another book. Other than that it was good reading and I look forward to his next book.
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Summary: A Weak Ending "Seals" It
Review: Ok, enough already...Mr. Robinson has basically rerun all his previous novels in this one. You have China take over Taiwan with no resolution and not even a peep from the USA; the court martial at the end is interesting but crammed into twenty pages;and the racist slurs against the Chinese get real old. The book starts out well, with the potential of two major plot lines, the blocking of the Straits of Hormuz and the takeover of Taiwan. And does anyone really believe blowing up an electrial generator in Burma is payback for China taking over Taiwan? Time for a new plot-line, and a new enemy. The slurs in this book are as bad as it gets.
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Summary: red chinese play bait and switch on the high seas
Review: robinson writes with his usual mastery of combat details and understanding how the us navy works. the plot is a little predictable on the macro level, but the author throws the reader a few curve balls on play by play. personal heroism is not in short supply among the characters, politicans excluded. adm. morgan, the national security advisor, continues to manage through the various crises with his irascible personality. not as technical as clancy, but a good read with an equivalent level of plotting by the red chinese "devils" and the good guy americans.
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Summary: Good but not as good as the others...
Review: As typical for all of Robinson's books this one was excellent and a definately a page turner that kept you guessing until the end. However, in my opinion Robinson's last two books have not been as good as the first three. Yet, I reccomend this to anyone who has read his prior books or those of Clancy, Dale Brown, etc...
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Summary: The Shark Munity
Review: When I pick up this book, I was hoping to read some non-stop action as it was in his last 4 books. I was deeply disappointed in it. The action was so so at best and the court-martial was weak. I would not waste time on this book, hopefully the next one will be better.
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Summary: Disappointed.......
Review: I had anxiously waited for this book to become available. I looked forward to a great action story with political implications. The first 2/3's of the book met my expectations. The Chinese/Iranian alliance was interesting. A stronger President would have been more work too develop but certainly more enjoyable & realistic. SEALS deserve respect and admiration. What is amazing is that a serious invasion occurs and the reader is left with no resolution save a paragraph or two. The mutiny seems forced into the book.....almost like reading two novels in one. The significant events in this one seemed forced together. I was thoroughly enjoying this book until the mutiny....and the rush to wrap-up the story lines. Will not be as anxious for the next one.
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Summary: Unrealistic Techno-thriller Trash
Review: This book is a poor imitation of early Tom Clancy, ala The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, etc. The plot is ridiculous, and the dialogue and characterization is pretty silly. The author seems to think that the fate of the world depends upon two 12 man SEAL teams, and that the lack of a single carrier battle group would allow the PRC to make a major invasion. He conveniently forgets about the Marines deployed in Okinawa, Army and Air Force in Korea and Japan, other units in CONUS, etc. In his world, all US military policy and strategy is devised and controlled by a cranky National Security Advisor, who is a former Navy Admiral, who likes to yell orders across the office at his secretary/fiance, who won't marry him until he retires. How cute. I read this in a single sitting, while stuck on a long airplane flight. After I finished, my thought was "Wow, what a waste!"
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Summary: Awesomely captivating techno-thriller
Review: I picked the book up on the first day of issue and could not put it down. Thoroughly capivating thriller writing from the first page, Robinson excells even further than his prior books and techno-thriller peer writers. Buy it today and enjoy it now!
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Summary: A staggeringly bad book
Review: This is really a five-star book, except with a minus on the front. Clearly written to cash in on the post-9/11 US audience, it is trite, gung-ho and racially insulting (many references to "towelheads" and "Chinks"). The US is pure and wholesome and can do nothing wrong, the nasties are bad, bad, bad and can do nothing right. The actual "mutiny" of the title is a bizarre appendage at the end of a longish book, and by this time you've lost all interest in both story and characters and are reading out of sheer determination because you paid good money for this garbage and you are desperately trying to get something slightly more closely approaching your money's worth. I personally have read my last Robinson.
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