Rating: 
Summary: Action Packed Book!
Review: The central character in this book is Ravi Rashood(Ray Kerman).
He is a British SAS Major.His mother and Father and Ray move to England after the Shah is deposed and Iran becomes a Muslim state
His father becomes wealthy in the shipping business.Ray Kerman
joins the SAS becoming an excellent officer and rising through
the ranks.On a training mission in Palestine with the Israelis
he witnesses untold violence and brutality toward the Palenstenian citizens and is forced to kill two fellow SAS soldiers.He thewn joins forces with Hamas.He is promoted to the
rank of General.He robs two banks in Israel making off with 100
million dollars.He next breaks into the Nimrod prison and releases 47 Palestenian terrorists.
After these two escapades he next coaxes the Iranian government
to purchase two nuclear submarines from Russia through China.With
these two submarines he wreaks havoc on the United States.
This was a very exciting book. The author ended with room for a sequel.Read it.You will enjoy it.
Rating: 
Summary: Could've been a good book . . .
Review: ... but there's WAY, WAY too much political preaching. First I must state that after spending almost 13 years in the military, there's nothing more that I like than a good military techno-thriller. Patrick Robinson's novels were high on my list of such authors --- until this one.
Arnold Morgan was a strong believable character in Robinson's first two novels, but becomes crazed, growling and too unbelievable in this one. If Robinson would just leave his political rants out of his books, I would've rated this one much higher -- but I just got turned off by the many unavoidable preaching and degrating comments and references about our past (and present) U.S. leaders and policy makers.
Rating: 
Summary: Please stick to what you know best Mr. Robinson
Review: As a reader of Mr. Robinson's previous books - which were not bad - I picked up Barracuda 945 from the public library with expectations of a solid exciting read. Sadly, this book falls far short of Mr. Robinson's previous work.The short answer for this is that Mr. Robinson doesn't stick with what he knows - submarines and submarine warfare - but instead ventures into realms where he reveals himself as ill-prepared and/or biased. Namely; 1. politics. Mr. Robinson often deviates from the plot to interject mini sermons on the evils of 'weak liberal presidents' who, when they gain power, neglect US military and foreign affairs to the detriment of our own power (which he sees as a very bad thing. Further, he degenerates into sermon-y rants when the subject of the 'little ******* Chinese communists' comes up. Politics is never a black and white affair and his portrayal as such is disconcerting. 2. religion. He makes an effort to show some dimensions of the complex Islam culture and religion, but again, his efforts fall flat and thus his attempts to prevent his book from degenerating into an US vs Them affair in actuality highlight that conception due to his poor understanding of Islam culture and beliefs. 3. the overall scenario. Mr. Robinson's book is based on the hypothesis that one nuclear submarine can single-handly destroy the US energy economy. He fails to take into account the fact that the US does currently, in fact, have vast reserves of oil stored away in the event of such a crises. So while in his book investors panic and gas prices over quadruple, in reality our government would take steps to mitigate the crisis. 4. characters. Every one of Mr. Robinson's characters is a stereotype. His characters are not interesting, extremely predictable, and often behave in manners not befitting the offices he distinguishes them with. I was very disappointed about this. The only saving grace to Mr. Robinson's book is when he gets into the details of the ships and his combat descriptions. Because he does have a large amount of knowledge about military equipment and can write up a tasty fight scene fairly well I am giving Barracuda 945 three stars - though I may be giving him the benefit of the doubt in a few areas. I think Mr. Robinson just deviated from what he did best: submarines and combat, and tried to bite off more than he could chew. All in all, it was a hard book to finish and for Mr. Robinson's next book I will read the reviews first before picking it up.
Rating: 
Summary: A waste of time
Review: Earlier books like Nimitz class were more entertaining but this one betrays the superficiality of the author's acquaintance with naval officers, their customs and their behavior. Not wardroom material. Political asides are pathetic.
Rating: 
Summary: Scary and thought provoking
Review: I am an avid reader whose main interest is military history. Since 9/11, I have wanted to learn as much about terrorism as possible and, consequently, have read many factual books on the subject. This is my first readership of a novel about terrorists. In all my 70 years, I can never remember reading a book as scary as this one. There were at least 4 instances when I had to close the book because it scared the hell out of me. Yet I had to pick it back up time again to go on and finally finish it. I don't know how realistic the terrorists' acts are, but they seem very plausible. It seems very possible to me that these terrible acts can really happen to our country. I hope they do not.
Rating:
Summary: A good read, but leave your politcal views out of it.
Review: I've been enjoying Patrick Robinson's books since I first read Nimitz Class several years ago. Since then I've tried to enjoy the plots of his novels and leave the Right Wing political rhetoric aside. As an avid fan of the Tom Clancy novels I was glad to find another Naval action thriller writer out there to fill the gaps of time between other authors books and build some good current detail. I may be a Democrat, but I'm far from Left Wing and when a story has to get bogged down by either building background with all too healthy doses of Right Wing military attitude or putting it into your main character's mouths it really sucks the life out of the story. And, when it does - as much as I hate to, I skip through the pages to get back into what it was I bought the book for in the first place. I've bought and read every first edition hard cover so far, but as I read each successive piece more and more it gets bogged down in the Right Wing accusatory attitude. It's not what I bought the book for and I want to enjoy it for what its supposed to be.
Rating:
Summary: Good start, silly ending
Review: I've read a number of Robinson's books and was pleased to begin this one. Terrorists buys two Russian submarines and sends one as a visible decoy to China while the other one creates mayhem in the U.S.
My main problem with the book, other than the silly ending obviously written in after the editors wanted an upbeat finale, is that most of the book is based on hiding the existence of the marauding submarine and then having it surface on purpose so it can be caught in shallow waters. Total lunacy.
On the other hand the first two thirds is a good read. Perhaps some shadow author can rewrite the last third and fix it.
Rating:
Summary: Totally moronic.
Review: If your idea of a good military read is to try to follow a writer who can't tell east from west, is unable to develop intelligent characterization or even a believable plot, and who constantly bashes anything or anybody even slightly to the left the most conservative brain-dead republican you have ever met - then this book is for you. Two thirds of the way through it I literally tore the book apart before trashing it. I simply couldn't bear the thought of someone finding it and reading the ramblings of this intellectually deficient, self-righteous fool.
Rating:
Summary: Only because I can't give a book 0 stars
Review: Only because I can't give a book 0 stars did this one get 1 star.
Patrick Robinson, do us all and yourself a favor and retire. Seriously, just put you pen down and do not write any more books. You had a couple of great military fiction works early on, but you have run your course.
It is not a good thing when it takes over 70 pages to even get remotely interested in a book. And that's what Patrick Robinson has succeeded in with Barracuda 945. The characters are flat. The plot, what little there is in the beginning is boring, and the dialogue is crummy.
I will not even glance at another Patrick Robinson book.
Rating:
Summary: Attrocious
Review: Patrick Robinson makes the Israelis look like monsters, the Americans look like fools, and the Hammas terrorists and Arabs who call themselves palestians look like romantics.
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