index index index index This was the first book by Patrick Robinson that I have read and it will be the last one. The characters in the book are completely one-dimensional and unbelievable. The author seems to be have some hang ups with authority and believes that anybody who discusses anything with anyone is weak. The book reads as though it was written by a twelve year old and I was utterly shocked by the utter immaturity of it all. I had thought he was a well known author. The technical errors are numerous. My favourite one: when the GPS is switched off, he talks about a tanker running aground in Northern Nigeria, which happens to be in the middle of the Sahara desert.

I enjoy a good brainless action thriller at times, but this was in no way a good action story. The plot and ending were utterly predictable. The writing was terrible and the same points were repeated again and again, presumably because the author figured that the readers would have been too bored to pay attention the first time. A thoroughly unjoyable read.Book was received in good shape. The book was interesting, and spell binding.I have to say that the storyline kept me reading, but the technical errors were very distracting.

Set in 2009, Radical Islamists buy a nuclear sub, complete with missles and atomic warheads, with the intent to bring the United States to its knees. The mechanism? A massive tsunami generated by a missle-activated volcano eruption. The actor? An arabic former British SAS officer re-converting to an Islamic extremist.

The newly-elected U. S. president adds to the risk through his hard-headed adherence to his party's dogmatic theory that the U.S. is to blame for all of the problems of the mid-east.

Admiral Arnold Morgan, recently fired by the new president's secretary, cannot simply walk away. He must deal with the president and his minions, find the sub and stop the largest disaster the U.S. has ever contemplated.

It's an interesting story, and the use of volcanos as weapons is clearly explained. The effect of an east-coast Tsunami is outlined in frightening detail.

However, every time I got involved in the story line, some silly error popped up. Clancy virtually always got the details right. Robinson often misses by an obvious mile.

F-15 Tomcat? The F-15 is the Air Force's Eagle. The Tomcat is an F-14. Even allowing for a typo, it has been known for years that the Navy was phasing out the Tomcats for the F/A-18 Super Hornet. They would have been gone well before the 2009 setting of this novel. Captains commanding FFGs (Guided Missle Frigates)? SENIOR Captains? Not in the U.S. Navy. FFGs are captained by Commanders. That's only a short selection.

Maybe I'm being too picky, and maybe I know too much about the Navy. But, readers of techno-thrillers tend to be knowledgeable and observant. We don't need unnecessary distraction.

A decent no-brain read, but not a great book.I found the book to be difficult to enjoy because the writing was immature (too cliche, descriptions were ineffective). I also had trouble with his description of terrorist actions. For example, it's impossible to silence an AK-47 because the bullet always leaves the barrel at supersonic speeds. Anyone who tries to use this in a thriller doesn't deserve to be published.

Mr. Robinson may know a lot about subs, but I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters to find out. Sorry.I've read my share of techno-thrillers, and this has to be one of the worst. I'm not done with it yet, I'll certainly finish it, but I doubt I'll go looking for more books by Robinson unless I find them as bargain close-out books, as I did this one. It's so full of stereotypes that sometimes I wonder if this was done intentionally as a joke - somebody let me know if I missed something. One in particular that really gets me is how often one of the main characters, former National Security Advisor Arnold Morgan, uses the word "towelhead" to describe the Middle Eastern antagonists in the story. He flings the word around like it's totally acceptable - is he some Aryan Master Race Skinhead White Power KKK member or something? Yeah, the world today has a lot of problems and at the root of many of them are extremists from that part of the world, but to fling a word around like that reeks of racism, pure and simple, and to be honest, I can't recall reading any other techno-thriller that has ever stooped to such a low level. If this is suppose to insinuate that it's a perfectly acceptable word to use, then I really do wonder about the author. Nothing like a good book to promote intolerance in this day and age. Somebody tell me, is Rush Limbaugh an author, writing under the pseudonym of Patrick Robinson? Nah... I think Limbaugh would write something much more plausible and nowhere near as un-PC as this book.Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of thevolcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega-tsunami, with waves of more than 150 feet in height, would ravage Europe, Africa, and ultimately the East Coast of the United States, causing immeasurable loss of life and destruction ...

After Professor Paul Landon, the world's most prominent geophysicist, is found with a bullet in his head, it is discovered that Ravi Rashood -- America's nemesis and the former SAS officer who is now the head of Hamas -- has hatched a diabolical plot against the West: to fire a nuclear-tipped guided cruise missile -- Scimitar SL-2, named for the curved sword of the Muslim warrior Saladin -- into Cumbre Vieja.

United States Admiral Arnold Morgan, the retired National Security Adviser, and the Pentagon know it's not a joke when Rashood, accompanied once again by his wife, the Palestinian Shakira, explodes Mount St. Helens. Morgan knows something even more horrific is to come.

But stopping them won't be easy.

Rashood and his Hamas crew are deep in the ocean, in an undetectable sub, which he managed to procure from Russia via communist China. Perhaps worse, a new President, a weak-willed liberal in the White House, worries about taking a stand. As the terrorists' deadline approaches, the newly implemented and unseasoned National Security team must consider the unthinkable. They must assume the daunting task of organizing a mass relocation of major population centers along the East Coast to safer ground.

Morgan once again finds himself at the center of a desperate cat-and-mouse chase, battling his greatest enemy yet as he races against time to locate the silent underwater marauder and stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens.

With his trademark authentic research and grasp of military hardware, geopolitics, and cutting-edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale. suria review reviews analysis analyze