Review: Deserves negative rating...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
I was a submariner so I enjoy submarine novels. Well this author was clearly never near a submarine and did not bother to do decent research on the Navy or submarines. Error after error so glaring that they are comical. He messes up Navy uniforms, ranks, watchstanding positions, basic operations, reactor operations..frankly nearly everything. I am not sure I can even finish the book because of his errors. He just had a Globalhawk operating at 90,000 miles? A submarine came to 15 feet for periscope depth? The ordered depth is from the bottom of the keel to the surface; they draw more than that on the surface! Inserting fuel pins to shutdown the reactor? No, you insert control rods that ABSORB the neutrons! The list goes on and on. Then he has lengthy explanations on ancillary topics that he clearly paraphrased from other novels. Just distracting.So far, the basic premise that an arrogant CO ends up at the bottom of a Korean harbor is intriguing but this author, any author, needs to spend more time doing credible research. This is the worst submarine novel I have ever tried to read, by far.