The Shark Mutiny
a horribly compelling and devastatingly thrilling adventure that will get under the skin…
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3.9 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Be prepared for a high-octane, breakneck speed ride perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Frederick Forsyth...From the pen of international bestseller and multi-million copy selling author Patrick Robinson, this is a compelling and captivating all-action thriller you won't be able to put down.
'A stunner that irresistibly hurtles the reader to its exciting climax' -- Clive Cussler
'Fast, sharply-focused, engine-driven action' -- Express
'Mind-blowing' -- The Daily Mirror
'An edge-of-your-seat terror ride. Patrick Robinson has tapped into our fear to create a spellbinding novel' -- Herald Express
'Hot action and lots of heroics with a nasty sting in the tail' -- ***** Reader review
'Tremendous story, extremely well told' -- ***** Reader review
'Fast-paced and must not be put down until the very last word' -- ***** Reader review
'Hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
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UNDER ATTACK - FROM WITHIN...
2007: three supertankers are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. World oil prices skyrocket. US Military Intelligence concludes that it is Iran that behind this catastrophe at the gateway to the Persian Gulf, assisted by an expansionist China.
Joined by new, young naval intelligence officer Lt. Jimmy Ramshawe, Admiral Arnold Morgan threatens the Iranian Navy with annihilation, deploying the US Navy to Hormuz along with the nuclear submarine, USS Shark, carrying two teams of Navy SEALS.
With the US Navy distracted, China is able to unleash an attack on Taiwan, America's weak ally.
The situation is critical when mutiny occurs onboard the USS Shark, jeopardising the entire operation.
Will the SEALS be able to assist the increasingly desperate Taiwanese Air force and set matters straight?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fifth in a series of naval techno-thrillers that includes Nimitz Class and H.M.S. Unseen, Robinson's latest offers little more than tired anti-Beijing paranoia and chest-thumping adulation of U.S. military might. It is the year 2007, and the U.S. national security adviser, Adm. Arnold Morgan (the curmudgeonly patriot who has graced all of Robinson's previous novels), is unhappily marking time. He has been persuaded to stay on past his planned retirement date by a jittery Joint Chiefs of Staff worried about the aging Republican president ("a complete flake"). Bored now because "the goddamned world's gone quiet," Morgan and a junior intelligence officer named Ramshawe are almost relieved to discover that devious Chinese admirals, familiar from previous installments, have teamed up with the mad mullahs of Tehran to hatch a dastardly plot: they have set up a massive minefield across the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, directly in the path of the world's oil tankers; destroying them will drive world oil prices through the stratosphere and derail the global economy. Of course, the navy's chain of command gets in the way of those alert enough to smell a rat, and Ramshawe's warnings go unheeded until tankers start going boom. At that point, Morgan deploys the bulk of naval forces to the Gulf, and the U.S. and China go to the brink again. Robinson's description of submarine operations is not as detailed as Tom Clancy's, and his portrayal of SEALs is not as realistically gritty as Richard Marcinko's, but he does pick up handily on real world tensions. Whether or not he triumphs and here he does not neither he nor his hero show signs of slowing down.
