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Title: Bozo-class technobabble, high rankings notwithstanding!
Review: This book fails as technothriller and as fiction. The plot lurches and blunders and lunges, making lots of noise and precious little progress (e.g., the first thread lies doggo for hundreds of pages and barely resurfaces until the last two pages) and finally comes to rest, not with a bang but a blurb, in a thoroughly unsatisfying ending. The characters almost to a man are cardboard cutouts-the Chinese and Russian naval officers are nearly indistinguishable from the U. S. Navy contingent and the token civilians. The prose is banal at best, embarrassing in the occasional galumphing attempt at lyricism.
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