Product Description

This will be the fifth in the Blackwood "Royal Marines" series. The setting is fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines, the Commandoes, were used in coastal and jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable and successful Malaya was on a knife-edge. There will be two Blackwoods in this story - a senior officer and a ranker!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114263 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 210 pages

From the Publisher
The new novel from Douglas Reeman – our greatest living naval writer

About the Author
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic. The Arctic and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty five historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.

Customer Reviews

Rare poor offering
Douglas Reeman has given us some great tales over the years and he has certainly evolved and changed as a writer, his early works are very different to his later ones.
So I hope I have established that I am a fan and in that context I was very disappointed with this one. This is the latest in the author’s theme of the Blackwood family, a ‘Marine’ family involved in most conflicts since the Marines were first formed. This one has Ross Blackwood as the lead and we see him from the 1970’s through to the Falkland’s conflict.
My problem was that the narrative was dis-jointed and on many occasions I had to re-read things to understand them. Things that Reeman normally handles well do not work in this one and on more then one occasion just as the action hots up, the story jumps to the aftermath. Many threads of plot are presented and then sadly not followed up, an example being the lead character and his relationship with the sergeant who is also a relative.

I hope the author gets back on track with his next one.

Knife Edge. Douglas Reeman
Having read and enjoyed many of the books by Douglas Reeman, this book has been very disappointing. There has been little flow to the narrative and the action is very disjointed. Too much use of flashback,too much having need to backtrack for clarity. Characters not developed as in other books. Too much chopping and changing prevented enjoyable reading.

Knife Edge, rather blunt
This book is a great disappointment, too "bitty" to follow with the usual ease and enjoyment of a Douglas Reeman tale, it almost seems to be a copy of the author's early notes of ideas for another book!