"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Those who thrill to the blip of sonar and the thud of torpedoes, however, will relish the author's latest deep-water dive.Ĭopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. : Barracuda, Final Bearing: Submarine thriller. DiMercurio's matter-of-fact style squeezes much of the tension out of the story, and some readers may find his characters' sub-speak awfully dry. The initial confrontation with Japan leaves Pacino in charge of a minimal fleet against overwhelming odds, but a lone, specially armed American sub may save the day?if it can reach the Sea of China in time. Phoenix Sub Zero (1994) Barracuda Final Bearing (1996). All this takes place early in the next century, as the first female president follows the lead of a returning DiMercurio hero, the maverick Admiral Michael Pacino, in agreeing to the step that puts the world at the brink of war. Michael DiMercurio is an author of submarine fiction novels. blockade of Japan and a confrontation between the U.S. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Thanks to the connections of its brash Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. When those means backfire, events escalate into a U.N. Barracuda Final Bearing by Michael DiMercurio eBook Barnes & Noble A volatile new state calling itself Greater Manchuria emerges out of the political and military strife of Asia. Especially impressive here are the futuristic methods employed by a Japanese spy infiltrating a new nation's atomic missile site, and the unique means employed by Japan to try to render that site useless. As a former officer of the USS Hammerhead, DiMercurio knows his submarines, and the high-tech detail that he brings to his fourth undersea thriller (after Phoenix Sub Zero) should delight fans of the genre.
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