Scimitar SL-2

By Patrick Robinson

The master of naval thrillers returns with his most shocking “what if?” scenario yet: a terrorist hatches a bold plan to blow up a volcano—and devastate America

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 eruption a mega-tsunami with waves of more than 150 feet in height will crash onto American shores.

Now, what if something sent a nuclear missle into the volcano and blew it up? Ravi Rashood—America’s nemesis who first sprang on the scene in Barracuda 945 and is the most wanted man in the world—has hatched this diabolical scheme that will destroy cities from Miami to DC to Boston and all the cities in between. United States Admiral Arnold Morgan battles his greatest enemy yet, and races against time to stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens. With his trademark authentic research, military hardware, grasp of geopolitics and now cutting edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale that you pray will never happen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 13, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061807718

Patrick Robinson

Rev. James Martin, SJ, is a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, consultor to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, and author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Jesus: A Pilgrimage, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and My Life with the Saints, which Publishers Weekly named one of the best books of 2006. Father Martin is a frequent commentator in the national and international media, having appeared on all the major networks, and in such diverse outlets as The Colbert Report, NPR's Fresh Air, the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  Before entering the Jesuits in 1988 he graduated from the Wharton School of Business.

Reviews for Scimitar SL-2

[buffalogr · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This plot is interesting...environmental extortion and the USA held hostage to a "towelhead". The book is marred by multiple errors of fact. For example, the Army NCOs are not called "Senior Chief," a classified EP-3 would not be used for Seattle civilian transportation when Air Force McChord (airlift base) is right down the road. These two egregious examples explain why I rated it a "1". Also, I think that the author just changes the dates and uses the same cruise missile trajectory used in the last book--geez, there's even a hapless civilian that clues the USA leadership...just like the last book. It's got a nice mix of politics, action and intelligence work. It is a real shame, because the 'What If' of the story had great potential. There are more than enough other good authors that I see no need to ever waste my time reading another one of his books.

[henrimoreaux · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As a whole this book is good, it's a solid addition to the Admiral Morgan series. It's got a nice mix of politics, action and intelligence work. There's less undersea action than some of his other books but the story nonetheless does revolve around an Iranian purchased Soviet submarine. The Iranians, or, "fucking towelheads" as they are referenced in the book, plan an attack which would destroy large parts of the eastern coast of the United States - it's nice to not have the same targets rehashed. However, there were some rather large holes in the plot; such as the rest of the world who would also be devastated to varying degrees not lifting a finger to help.The edition I read, William Hienemann, 2004, 0434011959 had several editing errors which somewhat broke your immersion in the story such as dates listed as "9 October 9 2009" or one paragraph which had a characters name, "Adan", several times correct but once listed as "Adam". There were only a handful but still I would expect better from a mainstream publishers final edition.Overall, an enjoyable tale if you can overlook the flaws.

[mpolino_3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

There are some good sized errors in here and I expect more from Robinson. An F15 is an Eagle, not a Tomcat and without giving anything away, why not simply introduce an error into the GPS system allow the missile to fall into the sea at the wrong place?. The military did that randomly for years for civilian GPS units to prevent GPS from being used by terrorists. Having said that, Admiral Morgan is still a fun character to follow.