This is the second book I've read featuring Beck Easton (the first was this book's sequel) and it is an improvement in the diving/technical categories. Here, Easton contemplates leaving government service (he's an NSA agent) for good, but is drawn back in when intelligence reports reveal that an al-Qaeda operative is on U.S. soil and possibly planning an attack with a dirty bomb from World War II.
There is a lot of technical diving information as well as WWII history here, and the author clearly has done his research. The only parts of the book that dragged involved the romantic subplot between Easton and Angela Brower, a Christian. Angela attempts to convert Beck but fails.
What bothered me was the romantic subplot. Christians aren't supposed to entertain the idea of dating nonbelievers, and Angela's actions reflect this. Yet, somehow, she dates him and marries him anyway. Come on. If you're going to write an ostensibly Christian novel, at least have the Christians stick to biblical principles and not follow their hormones all the time.
I finished the book in a day. It's not exactly a light read, but it's quite engrossing and its sequel is also very good.
There is a lot of technical diving information as well as WWII history here, and the author clearly has done his research. The only parts of the book that dragged involved the romantic subplot between Easton and Angela Brower, a Christian. Angela attempts to convert Beck but fails.
What bothered me was the romantic subplot. Christians aren't supposed to entertain the idea of dating nonbelievers, and Angela's actions reflect this. Yet, somehow, she dates him and marries him anyway. Come on. If you're going to write an ostensibly Christian novel, at least have the Christians stick to biblical principles and not follow their hormones all the time.
I finished the book in a day. It's not exactly a light read, but it's quite engrossing and its sequel is also very good.
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