The Shark Mutiny - Softcover

Robinson, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712680438 ISBN 13: 9780712680431

Publisher: Century, 2001

Synopsis

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. nited 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 Rebublic of China. As world oil prices go berserk, Admiral Morgan, the US President's National Security Adviser, order the US Navy instantly into the area - five carrier battle groups, sixty ships, while the minesweepers go desperately to work. ran 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 Navu 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. he scenario is lethal. Shark's Commanding Officer decides

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2007: A series of massive underwater explosions has left three of the world's largest oil tankers burning fiercely in the Strait of Hormuz. The evidence points towards the Iranians--and the People's Republic of China. Admiral Morgan, the US President's National Security Adviser, instantly moves into action. Iran can be contained, but Morgan realises that swift action against China is called for.

12 US Navy SEALs are sent in on the ageing submarine USS Shark for two sensational clandestine attacks: the elimination of China's brand-new oil refinery south of Hormuz and the destruction of their equally new Navy base in Burma. The Shark's Commanding Officer decides he cannot risk everything to save them, but the crew is uneasy. 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.

"No-one does it better, not even Tom Clancy." --Carlo D'Este

Edition details

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712680438
• ISBN 13: 9780712680431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400