Another outstanding Reeman novel completed. And once again the bad guy - this time a British Admiral - gets his comeuppance in the end. Unfortunately, he is not the only one.
Reeman has a very bad habit of letting people you have learned to care about in his novels die in the end. This is because Reeman is writing from experience, he served in the British Navy during World War II and he learned that, unlike in the movies, the good guys can sometimes die pointless deaths too.
This novel was a little different in that it wasn't just the people who made the decisions. HMS Reliant also had some say in what happened. I won't tell you here, find out for yourself.
Thank God for letting Reeman write so many books. Sometimes the plots seem familiar, just the people and places (re: ships) changing. But you can say the same for the Louis L'Amour and Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and I thoroughly enjoyed almost every one of them also.
Reeman has a very bad habit of letting people you have learned to care about in his novels die in the end. This is because Reeman is writing from experience, he served in the British Navy during World War II and he learned that, unlike in the movies, the good guys can sometimes die pointless deaths too.
This novel was a little different in that it wasn't just the people who made the decisions. HMS Reliant also had some say in what happened. I won't tell you here, find out for yourself.
Thank God for letting Reeman write so many books. Sometimes the plots seem familiar, just the people and places (re: ships) changing. But you can say the same for the Louis L'Amour and Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and I thoroughly enjoyed almost every one of them also.
If you like Douglas Reeman style, it is very typical of his books. A good character development with plenty of action.
