Torpedo: A Surface Warfare Thriller
by Jeff Edwards
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Author: Jeff EdwardsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-16
ISBN: 0595325327
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Book Reviews of Torpedo: A Surface Warfare Thriller
Book Review: Too much action against an improbable enemy
Summary: 3 Stars
Setting a totally unrealistic scenario in order to have a fine surface thriller. Jeff Edwards has Germany selling four new AIP submarines of Type 212B class to an imaginary Middle East state, and a storm of sea action follows as the Royal Navy first and then the US Navy try to intercept those vessels along their way to delivery. The battle scenes between US destroyers and frigates and the German submarines are many and hair-raising but there are some details which sometimes put reality in the back-seat, like the extensive use of sub-SAMs to slaughter the American ASW helicopters. In the last climactic battle and after having suffered great damage, a US destroyer fights alone against land-based anti-ship missiles, enemy aircraft and a submarine, coming off triumphpant in something that resembles fictionary scenario of the Aegis constructor's brosures. The book is a great past time fo modern naval battle fans as it has some interesting tips about weapons and tactics but I would like to see a more detailed hunting procedure of the German submarines making use of deception and concealment rather to avoid detection than active defense with sub-SAMs. Surface warships often turn to minimize their radar cross-section against missiles but the enemy submarines do not do the same against active sonars! Also, the author has a fine idea putting US Navy against modern diesel-electric sumarines (instead of nuclear subs whic are so beloved in almost every other novel) but he doesn't give a hint about their "achilles heel" like shnorkeling, or their advantages in littoral warfare. I belive that Jeff Edwards (whose articles I read often in websites) should not sacrifice realism for some over-dose of action.
Summary of Torpedo: A Surface Warfare Thriller
An accident at a German nuclear plant, an illegal arms deal, and a biological warfare attack on the British Embassy in Washington, DC, combine to ignite an international crisis that threatens to draw Western Europe, the Middle East, and the United States into all-out war. To prevent it, a handful of U.S. Navy destroyers and frigates must track down and destroy a Wolfpack of state-of-the-art submarines. The enemy is a NATO Ally: trained in U.S. naval warfare tactics, skilled in deception, and thoroughly lethal. Out-gunned, out-maneuvered, and out-thought, the crews of the U.S. Navy ships must become as devious as their enemies.?Edwards wields politics and naval combat tactics with a skill equal to the acknowledged masters of military fiction.?
?Military Press
?[TORPEDO] is the Top Gun of Surface Warfare.?
?Barnes & Noble online customer review
?As the former Commanding Officer of a U.S. Navy warship, I was awestruck by the realism and plausibility of this novel. We?ve got to consider this scenario in the Global War on Terrorism.?
?David Armstrong, Commander, USN (Ret.)
?TORPEDO kicks ass! Smart and involving, with an action through-line that shoots ahead like its namesake?fast and lethal.?
?Paul L. Sandberg, producer of The Bourne Supremacy
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