Nimitz Class

Nimitz Class has a decent plot, a lot of interesting technical information about submarines, carrier fleets, and Naval operations. ON the surface this book had the potential of being a Tom Clancy class Naval thriller. However, the author dropped the ball by rushing his story telling. One would think......more

First in a series of novels focusing on submarine warfare. When an aircraft carrier is sunk in the Mediterranean, the navy starts investigating the reason why, and starts the search for a submarine. Very good, with a lot of tension, in the way the best submarine books and movies have.......more

"The shooter, his eyes glued on the cockpit, saluted, bending his knees and touching two fingers of his left hand onto the deck. Skip Martin gestured: "Forward." A crewman, kneeling in the catwalk narrowly to the left of the big fighter jet, hit the button on catapult three, and ducked as the outrag......more

What to say... racist, insensitive, unfactual, and downright disgusting. Call me liberal, but glorifying war and covert destruction of another nation's property just because you dont like them is shameful. Iranians are not Arabs. You cannot destroy Iran's submarines without cause or justification. You......more

Patrick Robinson’s debut is a passable technothriller about a Nimitz class carrier getting destroyed. While it has many Clancy-like traits, it fails when it moves out of the military and into the political and administrative arenas. Cool submarine stuff though. [URL not allowed]......more