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Summary: Only one word - WOW!
Review: This one makes The Hunt For Red October as outdated as WW2 German U-boats! Set around the year 2020, it details a conflict between Japan and a new nation called Greater Manchuria over a stockpile of nukes. When a suicide commando learns of the find, the Japs launch a plutonium glue missile strike on the base, and the action kicks off as their new high tech robosubs manage to obliterate US navy units sent to blockade Japan in condemnation of the attack. So, the USS Piranha dives beneath the polar icecaps armed with the latest weaponry available on its way to the Pacific . . . what more can one say.Utterly brilliant, in the tradition of Clive Cussler's imaginative thrillers. Fascinating and feasible technology (WritePads and orbiting Internet servers! Great stuff!) and submarine action scenes to rival Tom Clancy, matching his authenticity and detail superbly. Altogether, well worth a read. I would give this ten stars but the scale won't let me!
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Summary: DiMercurio's the best at Submarine Warfare novels!!!!!!!
Review: With Barracuda Final Bearing, former submariner Michael DiMercurio once again proves he is the best author in this class. A Naval Academy graduate with a strong engineering background, who served in the US Navy's submarine service, he possesses a command of the subject matter without equal. His dust jackets say that he works as a mechanical engineer now that he's left the Navy so it would seem that he has lost none of his engineering prowess. Unlike many technically trained people however, who can't write a compound sentence, DiMercurio delivers. He writes about Navy people with compassion and a great deal of understanding. After all, he's been there, done that and gotten the t-shirt. He knows from whence he speaks. I have read all of his books in the order published and they continue to grab me and keep my attention. Mr. DiMercurio has a phenomenal ability to take the reader into the future with new technologies but, his works do not read like unbelievable science fiction. What he writes is something we all know could be with us in the not too distant future. This is not the most scholarly of reviews. But then again, DiMercurio isn't writing "The Brothers Karamazov," either. What he does deliver, each and every time, are well written and thoroughly plausible stories of Navy submariners who quietly go about their business, which is defending America and her interests. I am a veteran and a serving member of the reserves and these books always make me stop and pause to think about my active duty brethren, who perform arduous tasks under less than optimal conditions. These men and women, serving at home and far away deserve our undying respect, affection and appreciation. I think the writings of Michael DiMercurio are his way of telling his former colleagues, who are still on active duty, that he has not forgotten them, that they are with him every day. These books are in their own way, his tribute to their valor and sacrifice(s) so that the rest of us can go about our daily lives. Barracuda Final bearing is one book in an outstanding series. They have given me many hours of reading pleasure. BZ Michael. Thank you for every word and for your service to this great country we call home.
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Summary: DiMercurio's the best at Submarine Warfare novels!!!!!!!
Review: With Barracuda Final Bearing, former submariner Michael DiMercurio once again proves he is the best author in this class. A Naval Academy graduate with a strong engineering background, who served in the US Navy's submarine service, he possesses a command of the subject matter without equal. His dust jackets say that he works as a mechanical engineer now that he's left the Navy so it would seem that he has lost none of his engineering prowess. Unlike many technically trained people however, who can't write a compound sentence, DiMercurio delivers. He writes about Navy people with compassion and a great deal of understanding. After all, he's been there, done that and gotten the t-shirt. He knows from whence he speaks. I have read all of his books in the order published and they continue to grab me and keep my attention. Mr. DiMercurio has a phenomenal ability to take the reader into the future with new technologies but, his works do not read like unbelievable science fiction. What he writes is something we all know could be with us in the not too distant future. This is not the most scholarly of reviews. But then again, DiMercurio isn't writing "The Brothers Karamazov," either. What he does deliver, each and every time, are well written and thoroughly plausible stories of Navy submariners who quietly go about their business, which is defending America and her interests. I am a veteran and a serving member of the reserves and these books always make me stop and pause to think about my active duty brethren, who perform arduous tasks under less than optimal conditions. These men and women, serving at home and far away deserve our undying respect, affection and appreciation. I think the writings of Michael DiMercurio are his way of telling his former colleagues, who are still on active duty, that he has not forgotten them, that they are with him every day. These books are in their own way, his tribute to their valor and sacrifice(s) so that the rest of us can go about our daily lives. Barracuda Final bearing is one book in an outstanding series. They have given me many hours of reading pleasure. BZ Michael. Thank you for every word and for your service to this great country we call home.
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