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Summary: Great book Patrick
Review: A great work of naval fiction, read it and you'll not want to put it dow
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Summary: A Man's Book
Review: You'll like this book if you're a man. If you don't like it, I don't need to check between your legs a la Crocodile Dundee - 'cause you ain't one.
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Summary: Disregard all bad reviews!
Review: I have read Clancy and now I have read Robinson. I now know that Clancy has some competition. There was not one moment in this book that I considered a "snooze". This is a work of fiction, praising the naval prowess of the U.S. and the U.K. If you are a red, white, and blue blooded american, then you will enjoy this book thoroughly. Works of fiction like this are not textbooks, therefore they are not 100% accurate, if they were then they would be so wrought with detail, they would be boring. I.E Larry Bond.
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Summary: HE GETS THE EQUIPMENT RIGHT BUT NOT THE PEOPLE
Review: This book reads like some Aryan vision for a racially pure fighting force. All the heroes have fair skin and blue eyes with colored people nowhere to be found. Didn't Robinson notice that the US Navy was successfully integrated about two generations ago? He gets the equipment right but totally misses the human ethos of the real navy which, ironically, is way more interesting than his stereotype.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, even though, i'm in middle school. It offers both military and adventure to the average adventure reader.
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Summary: Don't be fooled by bad reviews!
Review: Those who have written negative comments on this novel are way off the mark. I just finished it and highly recommend the book to all interested in global cat and mouse thrillers. All you Navy guys are challenged! Read this book! You will love it! I served on USS Coral Sea during the Vietnam conflict, and the the threat of enemy attack was always on our minds. It is very timely, considering today's events in the middle east. At times it seems more real than the news we watch every evening. I hate to "jinx" a first-class book, but this would make a great movie if anyone has the guts to produce it. Outstanding work Mr. Robinson!
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Summary: Totally implausable trash- what a great junk read!
Review: My friend passed this to me on a long delayed airplane flight. After telling him that it had no redeeming literary qualities, I proceeded to devour the entire book. Total trash, silly implausable characters - what a fun read to pass the time on a noisy airplane ride.
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Summary: NOT AN EQUAL TO TOM CLANCY.
Review: The reviews that compare Mr. Robinson to Tom Clancy are off the mark. Robinson's characters are omnipotent, superhuman, and completely unbelievable. They belong in romance novels, not a military techno-thriller that is billed as "the new standard" in this genre. The level of technical detail is woeful, and where it is present, it doesn't leave the reader believing or trusting it fully. Clancy is a master, this guy is trying to cash in on his coat-tails with a shoddy product. I wish I hadn't wasted my money.
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Summary: Writer Needs to Do More Research and Editing
Review: Mr. Robinson has provided his readers with an entertaining read that is very lacking in accuracy. There are significant errors with naval rank and history. So many in fact, that the lack of attention to detail ultimately diminished my overall enjoyment of the book. I have not yet read Kilo Class and HMS UNSEEN is already in the stores so I can only hope that he learned from the criticisms of his first work. As I said, the book was entertaining and probably even more so for readers lacking real knowledge of naval operations. What was readily apparent is that Mr. Robinson was never in either the U.S. or Royal Navy and that he is nowhere near as good a writer of undersea warfare stories as Michael DiMercurio (who graduated from the US Naval Academy and served aboard submarines). Don't pay hardcover prices for these books. Wait for the paperback or better yet, get them from the library.
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Summary: Lets Hope Scenarios Like this Stay in the Books
Review: If you disregard his idealising of the main characters along the lines of some romantic novels, Robinson is a master of disaster. I could not put this book down. Super read for a long journey or flight.
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