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Title: Attack on the Queen
Author: Richard P. Henrick
Narrator: William Atherton
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-09
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Rescue may be impossible, but the alternative is unthinkable. A board the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth meet for the first time ever to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For ultra-nationalist Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of the Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal of monumental proportions. In ominous silence on the ocean floor, they have hijacked the nuclear submarine Lijiang and set a course to intercept the Queen in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, another group of terrorists has infiltrated the ship, striking quickly and efficiently and gaining possession of the codes to China's awesome nuclear arsenal. In a terrifying instant, a small, deadly group of fanatics has taken control of the ship and summit. And now they hold the world and its leaders hostage. With the survival of the world's greatest leaders at stake, any misstep will mean the end of the delicate balance that passes for peace in our time.
©1998 Richard P. Henrick; (P)2009 Phoenix
Members Reviews:
Absurd premise, stock situations
This is a highly contrived story, scarcely believable in any of its major plot elements, which play out slowly and predictably right down to the bomb timer mere seconds away from zero.
Fiction usually requires some suspension of disbelief, but to buy this story you'd have to accept that the 8 most powerful world leaders would agree to spend a week together holding hands and farting daises for world peace. Next, they decide to convene this summit on an ocean liner, clearly vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks and mishaps.
Add to that: the US president is a kindly and brave leader but his peers from other countries are cowards. The security teams make stupid, obvious blunders so it is almost an anticlimax when the bad guys finally show up. Then there's the guy who has to get past his ancient fears to save the world, and the computer nerd forced to write software of a type he knows nothing about, in just a few minutes while held at gunpoint. Mix in a little mocking of un-American culture and you have a perfect stew of silliness.
In summary, there is almost nothing clever, creative, or credible about this story.
A marshmellow
ATTACK ON THE QUEEN is a light entertaining one-time-read action novel for a lazy afternoon. To read the whole thing in one afternoon requires skipping every other page, but fortunately, that in no way detracts from the experience. The Clancyesque details are annoyingly excessive, such as the fact that an ordinary, totally insignificant, sheet of typing paper measures 8 Â by 11 inches. Innumerable plot elements are highly improbable. I doubt that interior passageway walls within the QE2 are concrete. The descriptions of macho military types being seasick on the QE2 in calm weather is completely unnecessary to the plot, and is ludicrous. Parachuting an individual soldier onto the QE2, while the ship is making 25 knots, at night, in bad weather, in the middle of the North Atlantic, against a hostile force is absurd---especially when there is already a free agent on board, in radio contact with the authorities, who is perfectly capable of the proposed mission (and in fact, ultimately accomplishes the mission).
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Title: Attack on the Queen
Author: Richard P. Henrick
Narrator: William Atherton
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-09
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Rescue may be impossible, but the alternative is unthinkable. A board the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth meet for the first time ever to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For ultra-nationalist Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of the Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal of monumental proportions. In ominous silence on the ocean floor, they have hijacked the nuclear submarine Lijiang and set a course to intercept the Queen in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, another group of terrorists has infiltrated the ship, striking quickly and efficiently and gaining possession of the codes to China's awesome nuclear arsenal. In a terrifying instant, a small, deadly group of fanatics has taken control of the ship and summit. And now they hold the world and its leaders hostage. With the survival of the world's greatest leaders at stake, any misstep will mean the end of the delicate balance that passes for peace in our time.
©1998 Richard P. Henrick; (P)2009 Phoenix
Members Reviews:
Absurd premise, stock situations
This is a highly contrived story, scarcely believable in any of its major plot elements, which play out slowly and predictably right down to the bomb timer mere seconds away from zero.
Fiction usually requires some suspension of disbelief, but to buy this story you'd have to accept that the 8 most powerful world leaders would agree to spend a week together holding hands and farting daises for world peace. Next, they decide to convene this summit on an ocean liner, clearly vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks and mishaps.
Add to that: the US president is a kindly and brave leader but his peers from other countries are cowards. The security teams make stupid, obvious blunders so it is almost an anticlimax when the bad guys finally show up. Then there's the guy who has to get past his ancient fears to save the world, and the computer nerd forced to write software of a type he knows nothing about, in just a few minutes while held at gunpoint. Mix in a little mocking of un-American culture and you have a perfect stew of silliness.
In summary, there is almost nothing clever, creative, or credible about this story.
A marshmellow
ATTACK ON THE QUEEN is a light entertaining one-time-read action novel for a lazy afternoon. To read the whole thing in one afternoon requires skipping every other page, but fortunately, that in no way detracts from the experience. The Clancyesque details are annoyingly excessive, such as the fact that an ordinary, totally insignificant, sheet of typing paper measures 8 Â by 11 inches. Innumerable plot elements are highly improbable. I doubt that interior passageway walls within the QE2 are concrete. The descriptions of macho military types being seasick on the QE2 in calm weather is completely unnecessary to the plot, and is ludicrous. Parachuting an individual soldier onto the QE2, while the ship is making 25 knots, at night, in bad weather, in the middle of the North Atlantic, against a hostile force is absurd---especially when there is already a free agent on board, in radio contact with the authorities, who is perfectly capable of the proposed mission (and in fact, ultimately accomplishes the mission).