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Summary: A landlubber wrote it.
Review: The story starts as a page-turner (Will the pilot get his plane on the deck?). But the cast of characters includes an ensign (junior grade). Dumb. Lieuteneant (j.g.) is a rank. The author gets a little nautical with terms like for'wd, and foc'sle. He goofs when a sailor goes up a "floor" on the carrier (deck!). The bad guys sneak up in an old sub, keeping it at 3 knots (quiet). They get within 3 miles. How?? The task force has a defending screen - use sonar! They have 2 SSNs - use sonar! Dumb. I quit the book at that point. He supposedly had naval advisers. I don't think they earned their pay. Stan Beattie
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Summary: Creative scenario of future threats to world peace.
Review: In spite of previous reviewers complaints over technical shortcomings in the text I feel this book has value. As we are all aware the cold war is over. But what does this mean? Are there no potential new threats to peace. This question occupies the time of many military strategic studies think tanks. The books value lies in the credible scenario the author has woven from contemporary players on the world stage. The Asian area may be a future threat as well but this book is an admirable readable look at the Gulf area.
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Summary: Hard Going
Review: This is not the sort of book that you can easily pick up and read, although I was being to warm to it towards the end of the book.
The latter descriptions of the British Navy seem somewhat more plausible than the earlier descriptions of the US Carrier Battle Group. Some of the terminology was inaccurate as were some of the grades associated with the characters in the book
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Summary: Stick with Clancy/Brown/Carroll/etc.
Review: We've all (most/many/some of us have) read the above authors, and are familiar with the accepted novelized versions of Navy fighter pilot jargon. It is unfortunate that Patrick Robinson has not read these authors, and had no clue. Mr. Robinson, you claim to have used military advisors on this project. Were they awake? At least Hollywood MAY hire some REAL advisors to clean up the jargon and technical aspects. Even his prose describing a fighter crash has no ring of reality or even plausibility. Can I change the rating to 0?
Can I get my money back???? ;-)
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Summary: No surprise ending
Review: Very well written and Mr. Robinson gave a great account of submarine tactics and warfare. However, there were no surprises throughout the book and the ending was rather predictable.
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Summary: This Author is LONGWINDED, but the story is good.
Review: While I enjoyed the story, the author gets really long-winded at times, and sometimes talks for pages and pages about things that really have nothing to do with the story.
I enjoyed this storyline enough that I have started "Kilo Class", the second story in the series. I'm only 50 pages in, and it's great so far. There hasn't been the same droning on and on about things that don't concern the story(yet).
This book is worth reading, but just skip ahead 10 pages when the author starts to wander.
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Summary: No surprise ending
Review: Very well written and Mr. Robinson gave a great account of submarine tactics and warfare. However, there were no surprises throughout the book and the ending was rather predictable.
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Summary: Nimitz Class - A well told Naval/Political thriller!
Review: After seeing this particular title and Patrick Robinson's other titles in the stores last year I decided to purchase them all based on the back cover descriptions. Prior to reading "Nimitz Class," I decided to check the other reviews to see how well the book was received and was somewhat disappointed to see that the majority of the reviews didn't hold this title in a particularly favorable light. With this in mind, I opened the front cover and dove in! Much to my surprise and delight "Nimitz Class" is a well told Naval/Political thriller that is extraordinarily intriguing, the majority of the characters are compelling and the pacing of the novel is dead on accurate. As to whether Patrick Robinson is a new Tom Clancy, I'm not sure about that but he certainly holds his own in "Nimitz Class" and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of his novels. At the very core of most successful writers list of Political/Military novels is a strong set of recurring characters. With "Nimitz Class" Patrick Robinson has set the stage for his characters such as Vice Admiral Arnold Morgan, Director, National Security Agency who is the spitting image of someone in his position, gruff in a good natured sort of way, tough as nails and extraordinarily intelligent. The premise: Deep in the Indian Ocean lies an American CVBG, Carrier Battle Group, a twelve warship group centered on the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, the USS Thomas Jefferson. She is on routine patrol after successfully engaging in war games with another carrier battle group. Suddenly several of the outlying ships take a massive airburst and huge waves, nearly capsizing a couple of the ships. Once everything settles down and the captain of the USS Arkansas regains command and control he attempts to make contact with every ship in the battle group. The main player in the group, the aircraft carrier can neither be reached through communications nor seen on radar. He immediately takes his ship to the carriers last known position only to find a high level of radiation and a couple of the ships that were close to her badly damaged. A US aircraft carrier and the six thousand men and women aboard are gone... In comes the main players of the novel as the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Scott Dunsmore is notified who then takes it up to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joshua Paul and then on the President. A meeting is called to discuss what happened or what might've happened to the carrier. The Director of the National Security Agency, Arnold Morgan and a young Naval Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Commander Bill Baldridge whose brother just happened to have been the Captain of the USS Thomas Jefferson. While the general consensus is that this was somehow an accident aboard the aircraft carrier, Bill Baldridge, a nuclear expert explains otherwise and leads them down the path of discovery... What follows is nothing short of an outstanding Naval/Political thriller that is a true page turner. At times, some of the text is somewhat clipped and the technical terminology is off a bit, both of which can be easily overlooked in the overall light of the plot which is thoroughly captivating. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of this genre! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: A prequel to 911
Review: This was my first Robinson book. I heard the unabridged tape version. The narrator was very good. The plot for this book was very original. The character development was at times difficult to follow. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in political and military affairs.
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Summary: Ugh
Review: Breathtaking drivel. For the record, I found exactly one accurate depiction in the book. It's where the head of the NSA is trying to figure out what's going on and brightens up at the thought that someone is lying. Intelligence officers do enjoy a good plot. They won't find it here: 1. Nobody in the military (or in any other walk of life, for that matter) speaks the way the characters in this book do.
2. Nobody in the military acts the way this writer describes them.
3. Neither do officials of the US government.
4. Neither do men and women.
5. It would take the media about a nanosecond to begin hypothesizing about the possibility of the "accident" to be the result of an attack. It would take the crowd of retired and former military know-it-alls just a moment longer to begin spilling classified information and spinning their own hypotheses.
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