Robinson is a wanna-be Clancy, but his books are utterly nonsensical. Nevertheless, I love them anyway, if for no reason other than to turn the pages wondering how much worse it can get (and they are entertaining.)
Some examples of his style:
- A special forces leader lectures his men about the virtues of eating dark whole wheat bread vs. empty-nutrition white bread;
- A terrorist travels all the way to rural America to see a woman (an old flame) whom he still loves and is willing to let himself get arrested by;
- A military submarine captain bellows “Mercury is in retrograde!” at his crew since he bases his decisions off of astrology;
- Taiwan runs a secret nuclear-weapons program in a remote island in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica;
- The United States attacks and sinks Russian Kilo-class submarines simply because they were being sent en route for delivery to China (the buyer);
- Terrorists hijack a submarine and start firing cruise missiles at the U.S. Eastern Seaboard
- An enemy nuclear-tipped torpedo blows up an American aircraft carrier, but the U.S. government tries to pass it off as “errr…a nuke stored inside one of our carriers accidentally went off.”