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Title: An overly-heralded disappointment
Review: I disagree with the Florida-Times Union. The book is NOT "superb," and Tom Clancy is far and away a better story teller. Unless you are a devout submarine buff, any Clancy book is better than this one.There are three sequences that may genuinely hold your interest in this story - the mysterious destruction of a science research vessel in Antartica, and a Navy Seal Team assault on some subs in transit. The third likeable scenario is the US sub's hunting of a couple Kilo subs, but you have to wade through 350+ pages to get to it.The characters in this story are cliche and shallow, and the basic premise is not credible. The US risks nuclear war to destroy a few diesel submarines purchased by China? Yeah, RIGHT! We've already let Iran procure a few such subs (in real life). This book is a disappointing treatment of a supposedly "realistic" scenario.
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