Author:Patrick Robinson
Be prepared for a high-octane, breakneck speed ride perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Frederick Forsyth...From the pen of international bestseller and multi-million copy selling author Patrick Robinson, this is a compelling and captivating all-action thriller you won't be able to put down.
'A stunner that irresistibly hurtles the reader to its exciting climax' -- Clive Cussler
'Fast, sharply-focused, engine-driven action' -- Express
'Mind-blowing' -- The Daily Mirror
'An edge-of-your-seat terror ride. Patrick Robinson has tapped into our fear to create a spellbinding novel' -- Herald Express
'Hot action and lots of heroics with a nasty sting in the tail' -- ***** Reader review
'Tremendous story, extremely well told' -- ***** Reader review
'Fast-paced and must not be put down until the very last word' -- ***** Reader review
'Hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
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UNDER ATTACK - FROM WITHIN...
2007: three supertankers are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. World oil prices skyrocket. US Military Intelligence concludes that it is Iran that behind this catastrophe at the gateway to the Persian Gulf, assisted by an expansionist China.
Joined by new, young naval intelligence officer Lt. Jimmy Ramshawe, Admiral Arnold Morgan threatens the Iranian Navy with annihilation, deploying the US Navy to Hormuz along with the nuclear submarine, USS Shark, carrying two teams of Navy SEALS.
With the US Navy distracted, China is able to unleash an attack on Taiwan, America's weak ally.
The situation is critical when mutiny occurs onboard the USS Shark, jeopardising the entire operation.
Will the SEALS be able to assist the increasingly desperate Taiwanese Air force and set matters straight?
Robinson is one of the crown princes of the beach-read thriller
—— Stephen CoontsFast, sharply-focussed, engine-driven action.
—— ExpressWatch out for Robinson. He is in the same league as Clancy.
—— Birmingham PostRobinson rules the waves -- matches Clancy at his best
—— Northern EchoI finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked
—— ObserverBlends carefully researched fact with brilliantly realised fiction... a compulsive page turner until its surprising secrets are finally decrypted
—— Daily MailA first class plot... the characters steadily evolve and deepen. Out of wartime Cambridge and Bletchley lurches the computer age
—— Daily TelegraphThe brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff.
—— Peter Millar , The TimesBeautiful...Farndale's elegant prose, his storytelling ability and the wise tolerance with which he views...his characters lend his exhilarating novel a tenderly redemptive afterimage.
—— Jane Shilling , Sunday TelegraphIt makes exhilarating reading, all the better for its satirical edge.
—— The TabletLove, terrorism, plane crashes, Passchendaele, religious visions... The highest compliment one can pay Farndale... is that the material is so well marshalled that the narrative unfurls without strain....beautifully done.
—— Mail on SundayPhilosophically ambitious and deftly crafted, Nigel Farndale's novel has one leg planted in the trenches of the First World War and the other placed sure-footedly in the present...perspicacious observations of human behaviour... beautiful.
—— Country LifeA constantly engaging and witty novel from a tremendously clever writer.
—— TelegraphPlausiby drawn....strong central characters, interesting subplots and well-sketched minor characters.
—— TLSAs idiosyncratic as it is ambitious...given shape and purpose by a true literary craftsman. The book both keeps you reading and makes you think.
—— Sally Cousins , Sunday TelegraphI drank in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer in huge lungfuls, and mourned it when it was finished. For anyone who loved Saturday, Atonement or Birdsong, this is the generational novel at its best.
—— Mail on Sunday