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Summary: HOORAY!! ANOTHER MASTER NOVELIST HAS ARRIVED
Review: I don't know what the reader from Arkansas was thinking when he gave this book 1 star. He obviously missed the point. This latest novel by Patrick Robinson is bound to hand him huge international recognition. HMS UNSEEN is a perfect novel in every sense of the word. Anyone who is interested in the threat of a small submarine stalking the oceans, undetectable and armed with anti-aircraft missiles is in for a real treat. As techno-thrillers go, this one leaves 'The Hunt For Red October' standing in the rain. It really is a fabulous read.
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Summary: BOOK OF THE DECADE!!! Five stars all the way!!
Review: HMS Unseen is the best book I have read in this genre, period!! The story line is tight and 100% realistic. This is the first book I have read by Patrick Robinson, and because I loved it so much, I'm definitely buying his other two, Nimitz Class and Kilo Class. This book is about a lethal international terrorist who steals a submarine and starts blowing passenger jets out of the sky. I know it sounds far-fetched, but the way he does it is absolutely amazing. I am begging you to read this. You won't be able to put it down for a minute!!
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Summary: Patrick Robinson Is Quickly Replacing Tom Clancy
Review: This book is so good, Clancy couldn't dream of saying he wrote it. Patrick Robinson is the best techno-thriller writer I have ever come across, and HMS UNSEEN is his masterpiece. You simply have to read it!!
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Summary: FANTASTIC!! IT ACTUALLY SENT SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE!!
Review: This is the best novel by Patrick Robinson so far. They're all brilliant, but this is obviously the book that will move him up several gears into major stardom. He's relying less on fact as he becomes more confident with his prose. I can't beg you to read this, but if you want to read a book that will literally have you on the edge of your seat, read this!! I promise, you will love it. What is also so wonderful about his books, is that you come out knowing a ton of stuff about international politics, military weapons systems and what really goes in world. No one does it better than Robinson, not even Tom Clancy. I believe Robinson is the best in the world at what he does.
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Summary: Boring as watching grass grow
Review: I don't know why anyone with an IQ above 43 would read this piece of junk masquerading as a real book. Tom Clancy nothing, this joker sounds like Dr. Seuss in comparison. I don't know what the two morons that wrote 5-star reviews were thinking, if they were thinking at all, but this book is one of the all-time worst excuses for fiction I have ever seen. I would love this book if I could remove 3/4 of my brain while reading it so as not to be in danger of retching violently at the plethora of gross absurdities found therein. I was assured that this book was excellent, but it took no more than the first 4 chapters to completely disabuse me of that notion. Inane, childish, moronic, dull, you name your adjective, it fits here. In summary, my opinion of this book can be summed up in one word (a highly technical term that is full of deep meaning): UGH.
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Summary: Excellent Sequel
Review: Eagerly awaited, Robinson doesn't disappoint the readers with yet another thrilling encouter under sea. His art in being able to put you right there with his XO is uncanny, and the character portrayal is as good as ever. Another great novel - HMS Unseen has a lot to live up to.
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Summary: Beautiful Book, absolutely stunning
Review: I thought this book was really cool. One of the best books I've ever read. I got it before it came out and I haven't read the others in the series but I liked this one so much that I'm probably going to get the others as well. When it comes out I recomend getting it if you like the series so far.
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Summary: This dude grew on me...
Review: This book is the third in what I hope will be a long series. But you know, when I bought "Nimitz Class" because the concept almost intrigued me, after the first read, it almost wound up getting contributed to my church's book sale table. Speaking as a Tom Clancy fan, Robinson was an acquired taste. To compare him to Clancy is a mistake--Robinson concentrates heavily on ships, where Clancy only did one book which spent that much time on the water: "Red October". If you picture somebody who falls between him and Clive Cussler, you've got Patrick Robinson. Where he's like Clancy is that his characters are plain ole life-size, not Homeric like Cussler's Dirk Pitt. The only problem I see is that his American characters aren't always that convincing. In "Kilo Class", he had a Yank using a Brit vulgarism my countrymen would never do unless we were doing a Michael Caine impression. But don't let that stop you from buying this book--in the same way the Colonel does chicken well, Robinson does Navy well.
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Summary: Great beginning, great middle - extremely weak ending
Review: Benjamin Adnam is a great antagonist, and like Darth Vader of Start Wars you really cannot have a great protagonist without an equally great antagonist. Patrick Robinson went to a lot of effort to create and detail the life and motivation for his terrorist, and as many reviewers have noted I also read Nimitz Class before I read HMS Unseen, and for 80% of the book Benjamin was in character and the detailed plot was great. And then it looks like Mr. Robinson was in a hurry to finish the book and just - well ended it in as weak a way as I've ever seen - in a manner uncharacteristic of the Benjamin Adman that we now could figure out. I hope that he takes our comments to heart, and perhaps gets some advice from editors or friends on ENDINGS - He's real sharp on begining and middles - needs help on the endings.
Nonetheless I am a big fan, as is my son, and we look forward to all his new books - but I think we will most likely start a club of some sort for readers who don't read the last 2 chapters, so the rest of the book stays sharp and fresh.
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Summary: This is a great book if . . .
Review: . . . you don't mind one dimensional characters holding fast to ideals like "good guys are conservative right-wingers, dumb guys are weak-willed liberals, bad guys are dark-skinned Muslims."
. . . you don't mind erratic plot pacing that can cover one 3-day mission in 200 pages, and the next mission in 2 pages.
. . . you like absurd comic books expanded into 500 page novels.
. . . you like Tom Clancy's stories, but don't care for Clancy's nuance, drama, realism, or respect for the reader.
The only reason I completed this book was to see how the literary train-wreck ended; a sort of morbid curiousity.
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