I've read a couple, & have recently borrowed a bunch from my cousin's collection of stuff (a mini library in his hallway) to read.
But this one...
The story is half-way-decent enough, but some of the concepts he seems to focus on make you wonder if he's smoking crack by the metric tonne.
Like, a "luxury submarine" capable of holding nearly *1,000* passengers + crew, and it has only *ONE* "Emergency escape hatch".
Which no one noticed the Antagonist had *welded shut* & then beaten until it couldn't be safely opened even if you DID have the tools to do so.
(Yeah, THAT'S not gonna show up on the Seals control board.)
Oh, it had enough "escape pods", but the Antagonist manages to manually launch them *ALL* without the C&C noticing...
Yeah, like the loss of ballast in the form of a couple million cubic feet of oxygen-filled, water-displacing spheres, each capable of holding "fifty people each" (his words), wouldn't be noticed.
Excuse me, but I think you'd notice your submarine suddenly losing a significant portion of its ability to remain neutrally buoyant.
At over 2K feet below the surface.
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If you ignore such stupidities, the story isn't bad.
Too bad there are a LOT of such stupidities you have to ignore.
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