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Title: Good start, silly ending
Review: I've read a number of Robinson's books and was pleased to begin this one. Terrorists buys two Russian submarines and sends one as a visible decoy to China while the other one creates mayhem in the U.S.My main problem with the book, other than the silly ending obviously written in after the editors wanted an upbeat finale, is that most of the book is based on hiding the existence of the marauding submarine and then having it surface on purpose so it can be caught in shallow waters. Total lunacy.On the other hand the first two thirds is a good read. Perhaps some shadow author can rewrite the last third and fix it.
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