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Courier Times: “Robinson’s most suspenseful naval techothriller yet—a tense, unpredictable adventure that rivals the best of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown.”
Carlo D’Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War: “Patrick Robinson’s best book yet. H.M.S. Unseen, the third volume of his brilliant naval series set in the near future, is a dazzling, page-turning yarn that establishes its author as a master craftsman of the technothriller.”
Kirkus Reviews: “A…master of technothrillers…H.M.S. Unseen is far more smoothly written than [the works of] Tom Clancy.”
U.S.S. Seawolf
Using stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of ICBM weaponry. So U.S. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan dispatches deep into the forbidden waters of the South China Sea the most advanced hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet: the 9,000-ton, ultrasecret Seawolf—only to watch helplessly as an accident puts Seawolf under Chinese control. Morgan must then assemble the largest Special Forces assault group since Vietnam, to bring Seawolf, and her crew, home.
Stephen Coonts: “Robinson is one of the crown princes of the beach-read thriller. Clear the calendar when you buy U.S.S. Seawolf.”
Publishers Weekly: “Gripping…As usual, Robinson makes the impossible look easy and ratchets the tension higher and higher.”
The Shark Mutiny
In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy is holding the world’s oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America’s active sea power is being mobilized—including U.S.S. Shark, an aging nuclear submarine on what was to have been its quiet final tour of duty. But during a Navy SEAL assault on China’s Indian Ocean power plants, a disaster occurs that spawns death, disbelief, rage—and mutiny aboard Shark. Featuring an ensemble cast—headed by U.S. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan—The Shark Mutiny moves from the secretive heart of the Chinese high command; to the control room of a U.S. submarine; to the screaming flight decks of the great aircraft carriers; all the way to a United States Navy court-martial. Epic in its sweep, meticulous in its authenticity, breathtaking in its pacing, The Shark Mutiny is the most dramatic story of rebellion on the high seas since The Caine Mutiny.
The Baltimore Sun: “There are plenty of twists and turns…The action whizzes along so quickly, and the story line is ingenious.”
Soundings: “Robinson again will have readers staying up way past their bedtimes in order to find out what happens next…Thrilling and terrifying…We can only hope reality is nowhere near as interesting.”
Barracuda 945
When a commanding officer of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS), Major Ray Kerman, vanishes during a bloody skirmish in the Palestinian quarter of Hebron, it cannot be presumed that he is dead—especially when two of Kerman’s advisors are discovered murdered in a style that is consistent with SAS techniques. Has Kernan himself joined with the terrorist group Hamas? The evidence against Kerman becomes overwhelming to U.S. National Security Advisor Admiral Arnold Morgan as Hamas makes repeated strikes on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with a sophistication previously undemonstrated. Confirmation comes with the seizing of a Russian Barracuda 945, one of the world’s most sophisticated submarines: it can fire cruise missiles with lethal accuracy and remain submerged—for years, if necessary. Hamas, Syria, Iran, and China all appear to be players as the Barracuda slices invisibly toward America’s West Coast…
The Guardian (UK): “Robinson has been called the British Tom Clancy, but I’d describe him as the new Frederick Forsythe. Barracuda 945 has the precision and momentum of Day of the Jackal, except that this jackal has an identity. He’s…SAS…turned Muslim terrorist whose global exploits make bin Laden look amateur.”
Also by Patrick Robinson
One Hundred Days
(with Admiral Sir John “Sandy” Woodward)
True Blue
Nimitz Class
Kilo Class
H.M.S. Unseen
U.S.S. Seawolf
The Shark Mutiny
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