This latest naval-based techno-thriller by the author of Seawolf
and HMS Unseen starts with China and Iran forming an alliance to
mine the Strait of Hormuz, which forms the main route for oil from
the Middle East to the West. This is completed successfully, with
two oil tankers destroyed by the minefield. Soon the oil industry
and the world are in crisis. The US retaliates by sending a team of
Navy SEALs to attack and destroy a Chinese refinery based in Iran
and a key Chinese naval base in Burma. The US naval nuclear
submarine the Shark is involved in both SEAL raids and this is
where two lifelong friends meet again. But the Chinese mining was
merely a ruse for the invasion of Taiwan, which they carry out
while all US naval attention is on the Strait of Hormuz. There are
further plot twists, including the mutiny of the title (which does
not occur until the final quarter of the book) and the ending is
open-ended. Like most techno-thrillers, the book is fast-paced,
with a plausible plot. The wealth of abbreviations and technical
data can put off the casual reader, and there is a slight
jingoistic slant to much of the characters' language. But on the
whole it is well written, with sound characterization, and will be
enjoyed especially by fans of Tom Clancy, Dale Brown and Stephen
Coonts. (Kirkus UK)
It is the year 2006, and a succession of massive underwater explosions has left three of the world's largest oil tankers burning fiercely in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. United States military intelligence conclude that the Iranians have finally carried out their long-standing threat to lay a minefield across the narrow seaway leading to the Persian Gulf. Worse yet, they plainly did it with the active assistance of the People's Republic of China. As world oil prices go berserk, Admiral Morgan, the US President's National Security Adviser, orders the US Navy instantly into the area - five carrier battle groups, sixty ships, while the minesweepers go desperately to work. Iran can be contained. But Admiral Morgan rounds on China, and develops a plan to eliminate their brand-new oil refinery in Hormuz, and then flatten their equally new Navy base in Burma. In the dead of night, the Navy SEALs go in, delivered by the ageing submarine USS Shark, for two sensational clandestine attacks. But in Burma they are on the run, pursued by the Chinese across the long, flat rice-growing deltas of the Bassein and Irrawaddy rivers. The scenario is lethal. Shark's Commanding Officer decides he cannot risk everything to save the twelve SEALs. But the crew is uneasy. Everyone knows the SEALs have never left a man alone on the battlefield, dead or alive. They face the oldest moral problem in naval warfare: to risk the lives of everyone and the ship, to save a handful of men. The Shark Mutiny - a battle not just for supremacy, but for the highest moral issue, a chilling, restless tale of modern warfare.
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