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Title: Naval "technothriller" from the knowledge of a grocery night
Review: Tom Clancys books were great because when they did deviate from plot to focus on technical military insights, they were correct, interesting to those in the military as to how detailed his information was, and informative to the general public. This cheap british knock off author held his own in the first two books by writing about britain as much as possible, and probably had some great coauthoring. Since then his plots have devolved, his characters never evolve, and continue to be trite stereotypes of american regions (not all Kansans are ranchers, nor all new englanders lobster fisherman) and also misses the most obvious details of military protocol and technology, the public is best served by treating every detail in his books as fanciful fiction (just like all of those of us serving on submarines know it to be) Hopefully his publisher will stop promoting and printing this trite ... and find a new author to spend their efforts on.
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