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Title: Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 0-06-109594-X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.97 (113 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nimitz Class - A well told Naval/Political thriller!
Comment: After seeing this particular title and Patrick Robinson's other titles in the stores last year I decided to purchase them all based on the back cover descriptions. Prior to reading "Nimitz Class," I decided to check the other reviews to see how well the book was received and was somewhat disappointed to see that the majority of the reviews didn't hold this title in a particularly favorable light. With this in mind, I opened the front cover and dove in!
Much to my surprise and delight "Nimitz Class" is a well told Naval/Political thriller that is extraordinarily intriguing, the majority of the characters are compelling and the pacing of the novel is dead on accurate. As to whether Patrick Robinson is a new Tom Clancy, I'm not sure about that but he certainly holds his own in "Nimitz Class" and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of his novels.
At the very core of most successful writers list of Political/Military novels is a strong set of recurring characters. With "Nimitz Class" Patrick Robinson has set the stage for his characters such as Vice Admiral Arnold Morgan, Director, National Security Agency who is the spitting image of someone in his position, gruff in a good natured sort of way, tough as nails and extraordinarily intelligent.
The premise:
Deep in the Indian Ocean lies an American CVBG, Carrier Battle Group, a twelve warship group centered on the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, the USS Thomas Jefferson. She is on routine patrol after successfully engaging in war games with another carrier battle group. Suddenly several of the outlying ships take a massive airburst and huge waves, nearly capsizing a couple of the ships. Once everything settles down and the captain of the USS Arkansas regains command and control he attempts to make contact with every ship in the battle group. The main player in the group, the aircraft carrier can neither be reached through communications nor seen on radar. He immediately takes his ship to the carriers last known position only to find a high level of radiation and a couple of the ships that were close to her badly damaged. A US aircraft carrier and the six thousand men and women aboard are gone...
In comes the main players of the novel as the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Scott Dunsmore is notified who then takes it up to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joshua Paul and then on the President. A meeting is called to discuss what happened or what might've happened to the carrier. The Director of the National Security Agency, Arnold Morgan and a young Naval Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Commander Bill Baldridge whose brother just happened to have been the Captain of the USS Thomas Jefferson. While the general consensus is that this was somehow an accident aboard the aircraft carrier, Bill Baldridge, a nuclear expert explains otherwise and leads them down the path of discovery...
What follows is nothing short of an outstanding Naval/Political thriller that is a true page turner. At times, some of the text is somewhat clipped and the technical terminology is off a bit, both of which can be easily overlooked in the overall light of the plot which is thoroughly captivating. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of this genre! {ssintrepid}
Rating: 3
Summary: Flatfooted foresight
Comment: History and hindsight have added a dimension to reading Nimitz Class. It's March 2002 and I've just finished a book originally published in 1997 and set in 2002. A terrorist plot that may have seemed outlandish at the time seems more plausible in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Are there people in the world as evil as the book's villain, Ben Adnam? Yes, there are, we've learned, capable of killing thousands of people in a single horrendous act and instigating war in the Middle East. Some elements of Nimitz Class presaged curious parallels in real life: a conservative and decisive President from the Southwest who makes tough and aggressive military decisions; the forming of international military alliances and actions involving the UK, Russia, Israel; the categorizing of Iraq and Iran (among others) in an international terrorist "axis of evil."
All that having been said, the execution of this book is incredibly irritating! The President's address to the nation following the destruction of the aircraft carrier Thomas Jefferson is frankly pitiful, as are numerous other monologues. I almost trashcanned the book right then were it not for the next story twist. Author Robinson saves himself by spinning a good yarn, however illogical at points. Because Robinson thinks up some interesting story lines, I'll be taking Kilo Class and H.M.S. Unseen along to read on a vacation cruise next month, but if the general sloppiness exhibited in Nimitz Class continues, those copies may end up hurled over the rail and floating in the Caribbean. The Nimitz Class manuscript deserved a good polishing. It didn't get it.
The author really needs a good editor. By rushing this book into print for a quick buck, the people at HarperCollins missed an opportunity to help the author create a best-seller in the Tom Clancy genre. Am I going to find more of the same in Robinson's future books?
Rating: 3
Summary: Good premise but predictable
Comment: This was the first book I have read by Patrick Robinson. While the story-line was interesting and even frighening (post Sept 11)
I thought the ending was rather predictable. ***SPOILER*** The
destruction of the subs at Bandar Abbas in Iran was a good sub-plot but was ultimately anti-climactic. And was there any doubt that Bill Baldridge would return to the Kansas homestead?
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Title: Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 0061096857 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: H.M.S. Unseen by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 0061098019 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: U.S.S. Seawolf by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 0061030651 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 006103066X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Barracuda 945 (ROBINSON, PATRICK) by Patrick Robinson ISBN: 0060086629 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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