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Scimitar SL-2

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In the Canary Islands, in the southwest corner of the island of La Palma, lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will explode. Nine hours after the eruption, a mega-tsunami with waves of more than 150 feet high will crash onto American shores, destroying cities from Miami to Boston. Now, what if someone sent a nuclear missile into the volcano and blew it up? Ravi Rashood-America's most-wanted who first sprang on the scene in Barracuda 945-has hatched this diabolical scheme. It's up to United States Admiral Arnold Morgan to stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens. With his trademark military hardware, geopolitical detail, and cutting-edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale that you will pray will never come true.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Hamas terrorists buy cruise missiles from North Korea, load them into a Russian submarine, and shoot four of them into Mt. St. Helens, causing a volcanic eruption. Then they threaten the U.S. government with a similar strike in the Canary Islands to create an Atlantic tsunami. The imaginative reader, Eric Steele, supplies an ample array of voices for the multinational cast of characters as he improves a slow thriller with his entertaining interpretation. He switches so deftly between his accents and roles that he nearly makes the performance sound like that of a full cast. The romance seems a little thin, but the complex story hardly needs it. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 2, 2004
      Ravi Rashood, the arch-villain of Robinson's 2003 adventure, Barracuda 945
      , returns for another round with Adm. Arnold Morgan, national security adviser for the former U.S. president, a militaristic Republican. Rashood and Morgan's showdown takes on some of the aura of the Holmes/Moriarty duel—Rashood has even named his new submarine Barracuda II
      —thanks, in part, to Robinson's rather plummy prose; not even Clive Cussler would have a character utter "Streuth" as an expletive. At 64, the crusty Morgan has earned his retirement and married his longtime love (and longer-time secretary), Kathy O'Brien. The recently elected Democratic president, "peacenik" Charles McBride, has little use for Morgan's services; Morgan's sidelining gives Hamas General Rashood the opening he needs to hatch another nefarious plot. Robinson builds the story's tension slowly; the lesser lights newly installed in federal security positions are slow to put together the pieces of seemingly unrelated events—including the murder of the world's leading geophysicist in London and the surprising eruption of Mount St. Helens. Rashood's plan, which tangentially includes evergreen Western foes Russia, North Korea and China, involves triggering an apocalyptic mega-tsunami via volcanic eruptions caused by a nuclear-tipped guided cruise missile launched from the aforementioned Barracuda...
      whew! Robinson's full-bodied, measured prose has a retro feel, and his narrative, studded with informative historical and political tidbits, turns every new setting into its own short story. Agent, Ed Victor.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Fans of Robinson's submarine thrillers will be delighted with this latest. Retirement to Admiral Morgan is not a welcome prospect, and sure enough the former National Security Advisor sniffs out a diabolical plot against the U.S. With tsunami and other natural disasters in the news, the threat seems unsettlingly plausible. David McCallum masters the pace and action as a potential geologic disaster looms. He reels off details of the vast mobilization of the Navy's assets, complete with search coordinates, military hardware, and other jargon. McCallum commands the sudden shifts of action and reaction, and he conveys both subtle menace and spoken outbursts with superb skill, and understatement. Listeners won't want to miss a single word. R.F.W. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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