Review: great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
I got this for free in the Kindle edition yesterday morning and it was read by the time I went to bed last night. It is not a real long book, but it is a good one.I did not notice enough writing errors to take away much from the story, although as some others mentioned there are some. The one I remember is where an electrical system is referred to as 400 megaHertz - no doubt the author meant 400 Hertz. It could stand for a pass through it by a good editor, but the editor should stay away from the story and focus on the minor writing errors. The story itself does not need much in the way of punching up.The story line is of course a bit far fetched, and there are some holes in it here and there, but really, in this kind of story you can't have a perfectly plausible story line or it would not be interesting.I enjoyed the setting the author created and the characters. The hero is a little too good to be true, but it is fiction. The crazy guy is believable.I found some of the mundane things about life aboard submarines to be interesting. The author wove a lot of background material into the story without making the story boring, something that is not all that easy to do.I don't give out all that many 5 star reviews. I have to really enjoy a book for it to get 5 stars. I really enjoyed this one, and am willing to forgive it for the minor writing errors.The story goes like this.Ballistic missile sub is sent to Taiwan to drop off some nukes. This is the biggest hole in the story. The US is just not going to hand over nukes to anyone, much less the Taiwanese. But really, the sub could have just been sent to Taiwan and had much the same effect without dropping off any nukes. That was just a little over the top.The navigator has descended into madness and plots the demise of the ship.If you want to know more about it, pay the man and read the book! It is worth the money. He is only asking 3 bucks!