Mack Bedford was a former SEAL commander, a good one. When a group of Islamic militants used a French missile to annihilate his team members and then tried to surrender because they are now unarmed, he gunned them down. In the court martial that followed, he was forced to retire.Now a civilian, w...
I am glad to read a Robinson book without much of the two characters Admirals Morris and Morgan. Maybe they aren't meant to be distinguishable.And, like a lot of Robinson books, the good guys take a hit and bounce back. Cheap? Predictable? I love it. It psyches me up. He's clear about who the bad...
This was my first book by author Patrick Robinson and I'll have to give some serious thought as to whether or not I care to read another of his books. The book started out well enough and set a believeable scenario for the types of piracy that actually occur along in the IO and along the Somalian...
Jeg har brukt 2 uker på denne boka. Det sier vel det meste. Det har vært to utrooolig lange uker! Ikke har jeg hatt det spesielt travelt heller. Hvor enn så mye jeg ville så klarte jeg ikke å drive meg selv kjappere gjennom boka. Den er langsom. Fryktelig langsom. Og detaljert. Over-detaljert til...
Nimitz Class has a decent plot, a lot of interesting technical information about submarines, carrier fleets, and Naval operations. ON the surface this book had the potential of being a Tom Clancy class Naval thriller. However, the author dropped the ball by rushing his story telling.One would t...
'Kilo Class' by all means is a very specific military (Navy) action-thriller that catered to that very reader(ship) group. Which leaves about almost all of us a bit alienated by the terms and turn of events that unfold in the story. I am not really sure if Robinson was trying to appeal to a wider...
Interesting book. I think I may have read it before - some if it is very interesting, some of it is so, so. It was good, overall. Had a decent flow to it. Character development for the villain was the main focus of the first few chapters. It is 'funny' how many future terrorists are let into ...
This is the third fictional book written by Patrick Robinson. I see on Goodreads it is indicated as being a part of a series called 'Admiral Arnold Morgan'; it is a nice indicator, I suppose, for this batch of books. I thought it had a good plot and flowed well, overall. It did not grip me qui...
A customer brought this into my work one day and personally handed it to me to read. He is an older gentleman and had always seen me with a book so he wanted to share one of his favorite authors.I had never read a book by Patrick Robinson before. Actually, I can't say I've ever seen his books b...
By the time I was finished, I was very pleased. It took about a hundred pages of coincidence-driven set-up and some cartoon-ish characterization, especially that of the author's vicarious stand-in Adm. Arnold Morgan, but at this point (#7 in the series) it is to be expected, and is actually a lit...
My actual review doesn't quite support 4 stars; the variables of this book spread accross the world and strain the limits of suspension of disbelief. Not a big deal. With Robinson, Admiral Arnold Morgan and his ever-patient fiancee/secretary Kathy, disbelief is a common feeling.The Seals which ...
America, Britain, and Russia are drawn into a battle for a gigantic oil strike on the desolate Falkland Islands in Patrick Robinson's newest international thriller.The year is 2011, and Russia is poised to help Argentina blast its way into the Falkland Islands, to hurl the ruling British out of t...
The world's leading producer of oil is on the brink of revolution... A Crown Prince, enraged over the careless, destructive rule of the Saudi royal family, is determined to bring about its fall -- and secretly enlists the aid of a powerful Western ally. France, with its fleet of lethal Hunter Ki...
I already reviewed this on Amazon...but here's my take on it, anyway:Do not listen to 1-star reviews of this book by those taking on elitist attitudes towards the lack of flowery adjectives and fluff. It's more likely the writer's politics that bother them, so they assume the stance of literature...
English Channel 49.39 North 2.20 West Eagle’s GPS put Mack Bedford four miles west of Alderney. The radio that had been silent all night suddenly crackled into life:Alderney Coast Guard here. Alderney Coast Guard. Marine navigation four miles to our west making course one-three-five—repeat one-...
Across the parking lot, the sallow-looking man in the black leather jacket was still astride his dark-red Ural Wolf motorbike, a 750-cc V-Twin Russian-made powerhouse. The handlebars were high, wide, and gleaming chrome, and the rakish-looking rider had the gear to match: studded leather trousers...
To the east stand the awesome ramparts of the Himalayas, 1,550 miles of towering summits that block out the early morning light from the western escarpments, all the way from southern China to Afghanistan. There are tiny mountain villages clinging to the slopes of the Hindu Kush range where the s...