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Summary: A techno-thriller that's strong on plot
Review: Sweepers qualifies as one of the lighter style Tom Clancy techno-thrillers. I don't know about you, but when storys get too technical, I get bored. It takes too much mental effort to assimilate all the techno-babble, plus I get sick of the author trying impress me while the story line crams techspeak into my head. Lot's of people do like it though, and Clancy's success has created a groundswell of authors who love to get technical under the guise of fiction. Some authors are more story oriented than technical, and I like those books better than the Jane's version of fiction.Peter T. Duetermann, a retired Navy capitan, is one of those authors, and Sweepers is definitely one of those books; a strong plot and not so technical that it loses the story line. Sweepers starts strong and keeps moving right to the last page. Duetermann gives the book a good plot and a great ending, peppering it with Navy acronyms, but nothing an adult reader can't understand. Expect a lot of Navy chain-of-command stuff; it won't interfere with the story, but rather complements it because understanding Navy chain-of-command is an integral part of the plot. Sweepers has the traditional good guy going after the quintessential bad guy and a leading herione thrown in for good mix. The story isn't centered around steamy sex, porn or Kung-Fu fighting on every third page; in fact it has very little sex, one scene, and a limited amount of hand to hand combat. What Sweepers does have is suspense; and it builds from the first page in a Vietnam flashback to the last page with an ending that only the CIA will appreciate. Sweepers threads the story around both its characters and a very scary and believable plot. Read it, but don't start it on a week night. You won't put it down til you're done.
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Summary: This man's writing is excellent...a seamless work!
Review: The bad folks are truly evil and the heroes are terrific in the most literately done novel I've read since I can remember! P.T. Deutermann, Captain, USN, retired, goes considerably further than the other top writer involved in military detail in that his characters come alive and his specific events leave you pretty much "ridden hard and put away wet". He makes convoluted plots easily understandable and his use of plain English is wonderful. When a young gunboat skipper, "in-country" in the waterways of Vietnam, leaves a U S Navy SEAL stranded as the result of a tad too much unfriendly fire he creates his worst nightmare. The SEAL becomes known as a MIA...then pops up years later to exact some serious payback from the now newly promoted admiral that left him in the water and weeds of the Vietnamese jungle
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Summary: Great book, interesting read
Review: The novel begins with what appears to be a routine police investigation into what may or not be an accidental death. A beautiful woman is dead and her former boyfriend, a frocked Rear Admiral (lower half)assigned to the navy staff at the Pentagon may or may not be a suspect. The young admiral, who had served in Vietnam years before as the skipper of a Swift boat plying the tributaries of the Mekong River has something of a past. His marriage ended in divorce like so many other military marriages. His only son, a real dirtbag and loser hates him and wants revenge. So does the ex-Navy SEAL who feels that young Lieutenant Sherman left him for dead so many years before. As the case gets murkier, an old friend and mentor of RADM Sherman dies of a heart attack. Is it really a heart attack or a well disguised murder which hints at further retribution? The Navy and local police get involved and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy (the JAG) also gets involved by assigning a female lawyer on the verge of retirement and an NIS (Naval Investigative Service) agent to the case. Things become very complicated very quickly and more than just Admiral Sherman begin to find themselves in jeopardy and facing real risks. Since his first novel, SCORPION IN THE SEA, Peter Deutermann has only improved as a writer and storyteller. His former career as a Surface Warfare Officer, Arms Negotiator and Senior Staff Officer provided him with both an excellent background and volumes of material from which to draw his stories. He writes very well and provides his readers with all of the information necessary to understand the arcane ways in which the operational and staff sides of the Navy work on a day-to-day basis. He also fully develops his characters. While he doesn't do so too quickly, he provides just enough information on each of them to keep the reader wondering just what else he has in store for them. He also lets the reader hang just long enough until he drops the next vital piece of info. It is my opinion that Peter Deutermann has become a master of pacing and tension building and he has done much to create his own sub-genre in the larger arena of military and techno-thrillers. Call it the naval mystery if you will but understand that this specialized type of fiction belongs to Deutermann and Deutermann alone. I heartily recommend this book and all of the others by this fine writer. His other books are NOT part of a series so it does not matter what order you read them in. If you like(ed) SWEEPERS then try OFFICIAL PRIVILEGE; it's where Captain Deutermann segued off and started writing naval mysteries. His other books are all excellent, too and will provide many hours of suspenseful but enjoyable reading. I hope he continues to write for years to come. BZ Captain Deutermann! Thank you for many hours of reading enjoyment.
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Summary: Gripping Thriller Keeps You Wondering
Review: The novel begins with what appears to be a routine police investigation into what may or not be an accidental death. A beautiful woman is dead and her former boyfriend, a frocked Rear Admiral (lower half)assigned to the navy staff at the Pentagon may or may not be a suspect. The young admiral, who had served in Vietnam years before as the skipper of a Swift boat plying the tributaries of the Mekong River has something of a past. His marriage ended in divorce like so many other military marriages. His only son, a real dirtbag and loser hates him and wants revenge. So does the ex-Navy SEAL who feels that young Lieutenant Sherman left him for dead so many years before. As the case gets murkier, an old friend and mentor of RADM Sherman dies of a heart attack. Is it really a heart attack or a well disguised murder which hints at further retribution? The Navy and local police get involved and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy (the JAG) also gets involved by assigning a female lawyer on the verge of retirement and an NIS (Naval Investigative Service) agent to the case. Things become very complicated very quickly and more than just Admiral Sherman begin to find themselves in jeopardy and facing real risks. Since his first novel, SCORPION IN THE SEA, Peter Deutermann has only improved as a writer and storyteller. His former career as a Surface Warfare Officer, Arms Negotiator and Senior Staff Officer provided him with both an excellent background and volumes of material from which to draw his stories. He writes very well and provides his readers with all of the information necessary to understand the arcane ways in which the operational and staff sides of the Navy work on a day-to-day basis. He also fully develops his characters. While he doesn't do so too quickly, he provides just enough information on each of them to keep the reader wondering just what else he has in store for them. He also lets the reader hang just long enough until he drops the next vital piece of info. It is my opinion that Peter Deutermann has become a master of pacing and tension building and he has done much to create his own sub-genre in the larger arena of military and techno-thrillers. Call it the naval mystery if you will but understand that this specialized type of fiction belongs to Deutermann and Deutermann alone. I heartily recommend this book and all of the others by this fine writer. His other books are NOT part of a series so it does not matter what order you read them in. If you like(ed) SWEEPERS then try OFFICIAL PRIVILEGE; it's where Captain Deutermann segued off and started writing naval mysteries. His other books are all excellent, too and will provide many hours of suspenseful but enjoyable reading. I hope he continues to write for years to come. BZ Captain Deutermann! Thank you for many hours of reading enjoyment.
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Summary: Deutermann destroys SEAL honor, with no remorse.
Review: This author has shown a very lacking knowledge of something within the very Navy he worked for: The SEALs. From the very beginning, when he blabbed on about Galantz being some shallow, creepy eyed, psychopath, I knew it was gonna go down the drain. I could go on for hours about the screwups Deutermann made concerning SEAL operations procedure, but I can sum it up as: he messed up. He brings shame not only to that elite sommunity, but to all others of that caliber ( SpecWar) who served in Vietnam and abroad. The book itself, SEAL dishonoring aside, was badly written. He seems to want to make it sound like CNN's episode on SOG's Operation Tailwind ( and, just like CNN, made false allocations against a group of brave men ) . This is almost typical and expected of a guy like Deutermann. He wants to be like Clancy, as do so many others, and he goes in the wrong directions pursuing that hope. The book should have been dedicated to the warriors who died in Vietnam ( what I thought it was when I picked it up at a recent book sale at the library ) not the police who led the very bad investigation. All in all, a screwup. . .
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Summary: I can't believe I finished the book
Review: This book was horrible. The author's idea wasn't actually a bad idea. However he turned what could have been a good plot into boring crap. The ending was horrible and offered no plot resolution. The bad guy was very shallow. The main characters were boring as well. All the characters did was sit around and have meetings about the murders. It was a cheap read. Avoid this book.
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Summary: i couldn't put the book down
Review: This is the first book that I have read by pt and thought it was great. Once I picked it up I had to finish it in one setting. The action and suspense kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I am looking forward to reading more from him.
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Summary: Could be better
Review: This novel was written by an up and coming talented writer. the dialogue never bored, plot and scenario also fine, but regretfully lost steam in the middle just becasue of dragging and circling around too long that made the reading become tiresome in lot of chapters. Train was a hero that could be singled out as an independent character but the author made him always one step(sometimes, even pathetically and stupidly several steps) behind Galantz, the sweeper who turned bad and beyond salvage. Gutter, the vicious Dobberman used by Train to protect the heroine was an unique touch, while using an old Japanese couple as his housekeepers was a too stereotyped flaw. Neither the detective turning out to be another sweeper was quite logic but an unnatural twist. This novel, in general, is still quite readable.
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