Nimitz Class

By Patrick Robinson

Book Overview

It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group.Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles--in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It's a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it. So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with disbelief. But as her battered escorts report in, the truth becomes inescapable: a Nimitz-Class carrier has been claimed by nuclear catastrophe--the mightiest military unit on earth, vaporized without warning by an accidental detonation of unimaginable power. No other explanation is possible. But as Navy maverick Bill Baldridge begins to investigate the disaster that claimed his idolized brother's life, another chilling alternative begins to emerge from the high-tech web of fleeting sonar contacts and elusive radar blips. It points to a rogue submarine commanded by a world-class undersea warrior with the steely nerve and cunning of a master spy. Suddenly it's up to Bill Baldridge to track down this shadowy nuclear terrorist, who has already turned America's ultimate weapon into the biggest sitting duck in history--and who still has another nuclear-tipped torpedo in his tubes. He's already proved he has the icy ruthlessness to incinerate six thousand sailors without a qualm. What will he do for an encore? In these pages the modern military springs to life, form the Pentagon's tense conferences to the screaming flight deck of a giant carrier to the silent conning tower of an attack sub on full alert. But as Bill Baldridge races against time to pursue the nation's most deadly enemy, we are forced to ask ourselves serious real-life questions: Have defense budget cuts jeopardized our national security? Are we prepared to defend ourselves against naval terrorist? How safe are we? Nimitz Class is a world-class techno-thriller with a plot as riveting as Hunt for Red October--and an explosive twist out of tomorrow's headlines. Today it's a novel. Tomorrow it might be the news.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006109594X
• ISBN13: 9780061095948
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Nothing unique except maybe the author's writing style

The book is interesting, however, you relay must like description to last through this. The author Patrick Robinson spends a lot more time on detail than he does on the story. He loves lots of dialogue and still has time to describe expressions. The premise and the technology are not new, but it is accurate. And the scenario is not surprising either, as this has been accounted for in numerous History Channel programs. A diesel submarine lies in wait for the aircraft carrier to pass and nukes it. The mystery is who and why. The speculation is mostly based on real facts and history.

Super story for submarine fans

That was one of the best books I have read on modern submarine warfare and the story was also very good. The elimination of a US supercarrier by a single nuclear-tipped torpedo was presented in an exciting way, as was the hunting of the renegade submarine that followed. The episode of the British sub passing through the Bosporus Straights was absolutely marvellous and I wish Robinson had devoted some more pages to the hunting of the enemy sub, instead of discovering it by chance.

An excellent edge of your seat thriller!

Nimitz Class is an excellent book that I found had some irrelevant components in the beginning, but 50 pages in, it is very good, and hard to put down. It truly is a great book to read during a long vacation that you have a lot of time to read.

Fantastic and Imaginative

I don't understand why people are being so hard on this book. It takes place in 2002, I think some things may have changed by then. People don't account for this and just put the book down. It may not be the best book I have read but it is sure as heck not the worst.

Classy techno thriller...hard to put down

Robinson uses the phrase, "the great man" for just about anyone of statue or rank throughout the book. It becomes a "buzz word" for anyone of rank or position who the author apparently holds in awe..."the great man (U.S. president); "the great man" (Bristish admiral}; "the great man" (Israeli general); etc...etc.. otherwise it was/is a very interesting work which held my attention throughout