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Title: The Sea

Author: R. Karl Largent

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Danger: The impenetrable darkness of the Sargasso hides more than the submarine's priceless cargo. It hides secret agendas, unrevealed motives, and unbelievable dangers - some natural, others decidedly man-made. But before this mission is over, Elliot Wages will learn firsthand all the deadly secrets cloaked in the inky blackness of...The Sea.

Members Reviews:

Adventurous Mystery Novel Falls Short

Sometimes I like to abandon any plans or strategies for what I want to read next and just go to my huge collection of unread books I have on my shelves and grab one at random. I had received this one in a big bundle of free books I got from my co-workers when I was departing a job many years ago. They knew I wanted to open my own used book store someday so they all cleaned off their personal bookshelves and gathered together more than 700 paperbacks to help me with my startup. Many of those I did later sell but I saved far too many for my own reading pleasure simply based on the cover art or blurb or subject matter.

So I came to this one with no particular expectations. I had never heard of the author and did not check any ratings or reviews anywhere before reading it. It is a story of a search for a sunken German U-boat which was supposedly carrying tons of Nazi gold. Unfortunately, its reported location is in the Sargasso Sea, deep within the Bermuda Triangle. The story is told from the first person POV of Elliot Wages, hired to join a salvage mission to retrieve the lost gold. As the story progresses it becomes apparent that not everybody on the mission has the same goals and are even willing to kill to achieve their aims.

I found the writing style enjoyable at first as Elliot is a witty, roguish fellow who is happily sarcastic from time to time sort of like most Floridian private investigators one comes across in many a novel. The plot was reasonably good but not all that original and the first half of the book contained far too much diving terminology and methods for my taste. We are also introduced to way too many characters to keep track of and most were never developed at all so there wasnât much to make me care about who the god guys and the bad guys might be. In the end, the surprise reveal was no surprise at all and was all too obvious from near the very beginning of the story.

I think the book also suffered from not knowing what it was really trying to be. Itâs mostly an adventure mystery novel but due to the location being in the Bermuda Triangle, an element of the bizarre snuck in all over the place but ultimately mattered little. Encounters with prehistoric sharks many times larger and more dangerous than ever recorded really elevated the eye-roll factor. In addition, members of the crew kept getting killed one by one and I was starting to think I was reading a repeat of Agatha Christieâs âAnd Then There Were Noneâ except on a stranded salvage ship in the sea.

I now know that the author has a number of other books and series out there. While this was an âOKâ read, I donât think I will be specifically seeking out more books by this author. If I had another free one handed to me thoughâI would very likely read it.

Another Would've Been Better In Third-Person But Still Good Fun

This is another case of one of my favorite authors switching to first-person and almost ruining a great story.