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Title: Enjoyable, if you skip large sections of the story.
Review: The cover denotes him as the next Tom Clancy. In my opinion, Tom need not worry. This book has a wonderful storyline that could be developed. However, we are forced to read excruciating details about the commander's wife (who is only a secondary character) and a North Pole undersea crossing. Mr. Robinson then only devotes a couple of pages to hunting down and destroying two Soviet-built submarines. The book is full of finite details of things which do not move the story along and comes up short on the areas which are exciting and relevant. Finally, the plot is very contrived and the story seems to revolve around luck (like being in a sailboat in an antartic region and seeing a submarine periscope where nothing exists and nobody ever goes but our heros happen to depart their path to Australia and end up here). These sort of happenings are not realistic but seem to be the only way Patrick Robinson could move his story along.
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