Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148092 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Synopsis
As Britain hands over Hong Kong, a secret long-term intelligence plan is revealed to the new Prime Minister in London - a plan to counter China's strategy for world domination and its frightening growth in economic and military might; a plan to set free one fifth of the world's population. The instruments on which the plan's success depends are John Dancer, the laconic American CIA agent who has been in China too long, and Project Deadwater, which pushes combined Anglo-American stealth submarine technology to its limits, and demands total dedication from the special forces SBS, SAS and SEAL teams it will put ashore. The most audacious power-broking game in history is about to be played out. Only problem is, no one has yet told the US president ...

Customer Reviews

Chillingly realistic
Given the polical situation in South East Asia in recent years, the back-ground and detailed research put into the book makes the plot realistic. It is easy to read and hard to put down. Not a single page is dull. A good balance between action, development of characters and an ever-thickening plot involves the reader throughout.

his worst book yet..only 'cause the others were all stunning
I have read every book written by Terence Strong,and really looked forward to this.If you are reading this and are put off by the reveiws,Id understand if you chose to pass this book by.Whilst this may not be a total mistake,to pass the author by would be.All of his previous books have been awesome,bar none. The error is obvious to T.Strong fans.He has become so good that people rightly began to compare him to Tom Clancy,so to support this,he has written this book on the same lines as a Clancy novel,but not quite.The result is a bit like an english football team playing an Italian team in the Champions league,and losing because they tried to play in an Italian style;when had they played their natural english game they may have won. Terence,your only competition is yourself(and maybe Patrick Nicholson) so if the next offering is as good as 'That last mountain', or, 'Sons of heaven'I will be as pleased as anyone.. So to re-iterate to anyone who has read these reveiws..to miss out on Deadwater deep may not be the end of the world,but to miss out on Ternce Strongs other offerings would be.

Dead Shallow, more like
I've read a few Terence Strong novels before, and I find his writing an effort at times, as is the case here. Deadwater Deep sounds immensely exciting on the back cover, but is in fact immensely dull. The contrived and stretched plot plods along for hundreds of pages, before being poorly tied up in a few dozen pages at the end, with an extremely inplausible close that is the only action in the whole book. Strong's depiction of American characters is awful (unless they really do say "Bloody hell" and other British-isms a lot) and there are few, if any, significant plot twists. The whole thing is hard work, which is a shame as the subject matter, treated better, could make for a cracking read.