Sea Strike

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Summary: Outstanding! Again!
Review: I picked up Choosers of the Slain as a fluck and it was a good fluck! I read SS in 3 days, at work no less! Cobb's discriptions of the action and the Gray Lady made me feel I was standing behind AG the whole way through the battles! Thank you Cobb for expanding AG to a human with feelings and the conflict with commanding and being in love with a subordinate. I can't wait for the next one .. and the next and the next. Cornwell and Clancy look out! Amanda Garrett is catching you fast!

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Summary: An Excellent Summer read!!!!
Review: I picked up Sea Strike right after finishing Cobb's previous book Choosers of the Slain, and I found that I could not put the book down. I enjoyed his potrayal of the central character Amanda Garrett, and relished in just enough techno-babble to keep me thinking "Wow this stuff is amazing" The USS Cunningham is truly a remarkable piece of fictional machinery, and I can't wait to see her, and Garrett sail again soon!!!

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Summary: This exciting story kept my interest!
Review: I was hoping this second book about Amanda Garrett and the USS CUNNINGHAM would be as good as the first and I was not disappointed. I like the way many of the secondary characters are "filled out" and contribute to the story line. I hope the 3rd book is not too long delayed as I am greedy and want to follow these people along.

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Summary: Very entertaining and kept my interest throughout.
Review: I would recommend this book to techno-thriller fans. I was very pleased with "Choosers of the Slain" and couldn't wait to get into "Sea Strike". Capt. Amanda Garrett is a truly believable character. She is a gutsy and savvy skipper. She is not afraid to set the rule book aside when the only way to get the job done is to follow her instincts, which are as sharp as a tack! She is realistic in the fact that she must maintain an air of command while underneath she's still a human being with feelings and emotions. Mr. Cobb does a great job in blending these aspects into the storyline. Mr. Cobb makes the technical aspects understandable without getting too simplistic. The USS Cunningham is one amazing warship. A "stealth" destroyer with some very interestesting surprises for the bad guys. I can't wait for the next book!

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Summary: Very entertaining and kept my interest throughout.
Review: I would recommend this book to techno-thriller fans. I was very pleased with "Choosers of the Slain" and couldn't wait to get into "Sea Strike". Capt. Amanda Garrett is a truly believable character. She is a gutsy and savvy skipper. She is not afraid to set the rule book aside when the only way to get the job done is to follow her instincts, which are as sharp as a tack! She is realistic in the fact that she must maintain an air of command while underneath she's still a human being with feelings and emotions. Mr. Cobb does a great job in blending these aspects into the storyline. Mr. Cobb makes the technical aspects understandable without getting too simplistic. The USS Cunningham is one amazing warship. A "stealth" destroyer with some very interestesting surprises for the bad guys. I can't wait for the next book!

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Summary: AN EXCITING READ
Review: I'm army but once in a while I like reading about the other services. This was an interesting read about the navy. I also recommend THE OMEGA MISSILE by Joe Dalton which just came out in paperback.

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Summary: A good sea yarn
Review: If action on the high seas is your bag, check this book out. Here's a recommendation-- get Bob Mayer's EYES OF THE HAMMER for $3.99 here at Amazon-- if you like it, there are five more books in that special forces series. They're great books and the real deal-- we pass them around the team room here a lot.

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Summary: Sea Strike is good clean fun
Review: It is 2006 in the Straits of Formosa, Taiwan & Communist China are about to engage in mortal combat. Commander Amanda Lee Garrett & the crew of the USS CUNNINGHAM are sent out to prevent a Pacific Rim disaster. I liked this one a lot, thought about it for days although I won't read it again. Good imagery of future naval warfare. Great dialogue. Good characterizations. END

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Summary: Better than any other author of his type
Review: James Cobb is good at his stuff. He use very vivid description, with a wide range of vocabulary. It also uses many good chapter-enders, which is rare to see these days in technothrillers. Also I can't find a single technical mistake in this book. But the idea of an onboard relationship between a female captain and a pilot is also refreshing, very original.

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Summary: A successful sortie...
Review: James Cobb's second outing with the USS Cunningham is just as engaging, if not moreso as his first. Stormdragon/Sea Strike is a worthy successor to Choosers of the Slain and succeeds in enhancing and expanding on the world that he has created. In many ways I find this book to be superior to the first, because most of the characters have already been established it can jump straight into the plot itself. I found that the conflict in this story to be just slightly more believable than fighting over the Antarctic, if only merely because the US has generally stood back when such actions have taken place, unless there has been some kind of threat to their interests, ice and penguins don't count, but nuclear weapons would probably get their interest.