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    Nimitz Class
    Nimitz Class
    Nimitz Class
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Nimitz Class

    Written by Patrick Robinson

    Narrated by Jay O. Sanders

    3.5/5

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    It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. It's a Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it.

    So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with disbelief. But the truth becomes inescapable: a Nimitz-class carrier has been claimed by nuclear catastrophe-no other explanation is possible.

    But as Navy maverick Bill Baldridge begins to investigate the disaster that claimed his idolized brother's life, another chilling alternative begins to emerge: a rogue submarine. Suddenly it's up to Bill Baldridge to track down this shadowy nuclear terrorist, who still has another nuclear-tipped torpedo in his arsenal.

    "An absolutely marvelous thriller, one of the best things of its kind I have read in years. I don't need to urge people to read it, because they will do so by the millions."
    -- Jack Higgins
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 23, 2004
    ISBN9780060818395
    Author

    Patrick Robinson

    Patrick Robinson is the author of seven international bestselling suspense thrillers, including Nimitz Class and Hunter Killer, as well as several nonfiction bestsellers. He divides his time between Ireland and Cape Cod.

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    • 2/5
      Robinson's a good writer, so it would be nice to believe the jingoism, racism and imperialism, etc. that permeates the book is the author rendering true 80's era military swank. And then you get a chapter where he extemporaneously goes off on the gloriousness of the Koch brother empire and you realize he's not rendering depth and flaws of his protagonists. Rather Robinson and his ilk of techno-thriller fanboys are too blinkered by American exceptionalism and the like to realize how stuff like this comes across as Team American World Police without being in on the joke.
    • 4/5
      A good and suspenseful story that kept me reading and wanting more The storyline is believable, the characters are well-drawn, descriptions are detailed without being intrusive into the story, and the author has clearly done his homework in technical aspects of the story.
      The only two things marring the book are its gratuitous and inaccurate right-wing political remarks and the laughable notion that $5 million could be fit into a suitcase. The idea that a million dollars could be fit into a suitcase occurs in many books of fiction and is probably a necessary staple of the trade needed to make some plots work, but it requires a lot of suspension of the disbelief to accept it.
      Still, this was a good book I enjoyed reading.
    • 4/5
      Patrick Robinson’s debut is a good technothriller about a Nimitz class carrier getting destroyed and the resultant search for the guilty. lt It was as exciting as a Clancy novel, but without the tedious explanations of minutiae. I enjoyed this book. Interesting plot. The version that I listened to was only about three hours long and it was exciting all the way. While I thought it was a solo book, I found out that there are 9 more in the series...here we go!
    • 4/5
      This book is about an aircraft carrier that got torpedoed by a "rented" Russian submarine and what the government and the Navy did to find them and get some payback. A little outdated and just a bit over the top but that's why they cal it fiction. this is the first in a series and I will be reading the next one in the future.
    • 4/5
      I liked the story; I found it easy to read, but to much detail in places I thought it did not need it: when the characters go to a meeting with the president, the book details who is sitting where at the conference table.
    • 3/5
      A good insight into aircraft carriers.I suppose if you want to learn something about aircraft carriers and its powerful armament this would be a good book to read. As for the story I thought it was boring and a bit unrealistic.
    • 4/5
      One of Robinson's best techno-thrillers, a taut plot with well sustained tension and a convincing 'baddie'. Has the usual anti-Arab bias.