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Title: Crush Depth by Joe Buff ISBN: 0-06-000965-9 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Action beneath the Pacific
Comment: This is a book about the next generation attack boat - ceramic hulls, modern weapon systems, defensive countermeasures. The scene is 2012 or so. The problem is a new war between the Axis powers of Germany and South Africa, the not so friendly Chinese and Russians (neutrals on the side of the bad guys) and the allies (America and Britain). Improbable, perhaps, but no one thought the WTC would be reduced to rubble either.
While Michael DiMercurio is king of the submarine thriller genre, Joe Buff is a worthy member.
This comes down to a duel between the Axis super submarine called the Voortrekker and the American submarine Challenger. These two crews have met once before and fought to a draw. Now the geopolitical stakes continue to rise and one of these boats needs to go down for the last time.
The Voortrekker scores a series of successes as it marches across the Indian Coean, through the SOSUS line leading into the Pacific and onto the final confrontation under the Ross Ice Shelf.
Crush Depth is fast paced, well written and interesting. There is a glossary at the back of the book that covers many of the technical terms.
A good read. Pick it up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Out Clancy's Clancy!
Comment: Tom Clancy has always been my favorite author on the subject of submarine warfare. His portrayal of modern submarine warfare was the best. That was until I read author Joe Buff's Deep Sound Channel. It had me so absorbed that I read it in a single sitting. Now with this release of Crush Depth, once again I found myself staying up way past my bedtime to finish this exciting novel. Having always had a soft spot for "the Boats", I found this one every bit as exciting as his first. The depiction of tactical nuclear war at sea kept me on the edge of my seat the entire lenght of the book. Kudos for Mr. Buff and I can't wait for his upcoming "Tidal Rip"!
Rating: 5
Summary: Nuclear War at Sea...Vision of the Future?
Comment: In an all too believable tale of future limited tactical nuclear war at sea, Joe Buff creates a nightmare scenario that could someday soon appear in our world headlines. A new and unexpected enemy emerges in the form of an unholy alliance between Germany and South Africa. Hard on the heels of coordinated coups in both countries, they become the Berlin-Boer Axis, intent on reclaiming past glories and dominating the world. The war is so far being waged primarily at sea between two cutting-edge undersea weapons platforms. The American 'Challenger' and The Axis 'Voortrekker'.
Even more critical than the technology embodied in these super subs, is the skill and daring of both crews who man the controls and play a deadly game of 'Cat-and Mouse' across half the globe. Their innermost thoughts and motivations are revealed very candidly in the 'self-talk' that races through their highly trained and highly stressed minds.
As nuclear destuction on a mind boggling scale is unleased along the way by this 'clash of titans ', the reader is drawn along on a headlong race to the climactic 'winner take all' showdown under the Arctic ice.
Very well written battle scenes, whether on a grand scale over the vast expanses of the world's oceans, or on a more personal level between well-trained and well-equipped special forces on land, all add immeasurably to the excitement of the story. Anyone who likes the adenaline rush of combat, which can not be duplicated in any other way, will not be disappointed.
The premise of near-future, limited tactical nuclear war at sea is very realisticlly portrayed here, and leaves an uneasy feeling that it might just happen something like this someday. Will we all be ready if it does?
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Title: Thunder in the Deep : A Novel of Undersea Military Action and Adventure by Joe Buff ISBN: 0553582402 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Deep Sound Channel by Joe Buff ISBN: 0553762885 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Acts of Vengeance by Robert Gandt ISBN: 0451207181 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tidal Rip by Joe Buff ISBN: 0060009667 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Terminal Run by Michael Dimercurio ISBN: 0451410467 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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