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by Robin White (Author) "Portland's navigator looked up from his plotting table and said, 'Looks like a thousand yards to the Blue Line, Captain.' ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (6 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075285898X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752858982
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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'Typhoon is a gripping look at what it takes to command a warship. ***' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The Typhoon is the largest submersible ever built. As big as a World War II aircraft carrier, it is the crowning achievement of the Soviet Union. The leviathans sank into decay with its demise and in exchange for hard currency, the new Russian Federation promised to scrap them. But one has escaped the cutter's torch. Now something big and wicked is coming out of the Barents Sea. Only USS Portland, her aggressive captain, his conflicted Exec, and the first woman to serve aboard an American sub stand in its way. Locked in a struggle that pits American technology against a wily Russian captain, neither side can afford to lose, yet only one ship, one crew, can win . . .

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4.0 out of 5 stars Clancy's Successor ?, 5 Sep 2003
By Mr MJW Slorick (Surbiton, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I picked up this book as a lastminute travel companion for a long flight and so did not have any preconceived ideas about the author or the book. For fans of Tom Clancy's early work this book is as good as any in the military thriller genre that Clancy presides over, albeit rather falteringly these days. The genuinely intricate plot centres around one last, rogue, Russian Typhoon class nuclear sumbarine on a journey that could have dire consequences on the world stage, in pursuit a Los Angeles class US Navy sub commanded by squeaky clean 'zero errors' Cmmdr Vann (or is he?). The author provides a good mix of character creation, plot turns and attention to detail that I have been missing since Clancy's classic Hunt for Red October. I urge other readers who like to be immersed in the world of 'Nukes','Boomers' and underwater cat & mouse to give this book a try - you won't be dissapointed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Ideal Summer Thriller, 6 May 2004
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'Typhoon' is a superior submarine thriller, pound for pound the equal of anything similar on the market. Crammed from first page to last with twists and turns, rounded characters, excellent technical detail, and evocative descriptive prose, Robin White's debut novel (certainly as good as, if not better than, the all-time bench-mark submarine chase-thriller, 'The Hunt for Red October') is set to become a classic of the genre.

The premise is simple - out on patrol in Russian waters the USS Portland strays upon what appears to be a ballistic missile launch from a Russian submarine, but soon discovers that the launch was a ruse used to distract them from a second submarine as it slipped past them into the open sea. From here, amid an escalating crisis between China and Taiwan, a game of cat and mouse begins between the Portland and the Baikal in the cold waters of the Arctic. Add to this already heady mix tensions among the crew of the US boat, a dilemma for the captain of the Russian submarine, and escalating tensions between China and Taiwan, and you have a novel which will cannot fail to hold your attention.

One of the best things about 'Typhoon' is White's even-handedness in his description of the Russian and US submarine crews: neither of them are portrayed in stereotypes or cliches, and throughout 'Typhoon' there is a real sense that the people onboard the Portland and Baikal are distinctive and real. This sense of veracity is what keeps the reader turning the pages of White's thriller (his other great work about submarine warfare is a work of non-fiction called 'Hostile Waters', so it isn't surprising that he's good on the facts, the details, and the intricacies of underwater combat). At every stage White succeeds in bringing the world of submarine warfare to life, whether in the depiction of petty on board squabbles between male crew-members and the unwelcome female Russian expert, or in the ratcheting-up of hard-edged tension as a potentially-fatal conflict develops between two killer submarines in the ice-cold Arctic ocean.

The ideal summer read, 'Typhoon' is a novel which you can completely become completely absorded by, never once leaving the dark, dangerous world in which White tells his story.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but unoriginal, 16 Oct 2005
By Rory Morty "Rory Morty" (Giessen, Germany) - See all my reviews
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Submarine novel enthusiasts will enjoy this novel, however, I had some difficulty with the originality. The cat-and-mouse games between the US and Russian submarines were very well handled in TYPHOON, since I found the technical details were nicely dealt with (I tend to get a bit bogged down with them in a Clancy). However, it also was far too reminiscent of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. Similarly, the disagreement between captain and crew was a little too reminiscent of CRIMSON TIDE. Hence the three-star rating. On the up-side, the under-ice chase was very exciting, and White's portrayal of the crews from the two nations, often at odds with one another, was really nice. Clancy tends to over-dramatise and sterotype the opposition, while Patrick Robinson's stereotypical, racist caricatures of Russian, Chinese and middle-eastern submarine crews totally ruin his novels. White did quite a nice job with the Russian crews, I felt. I also felt that the book could have done without the lead female role. Bringing this female language specialist into the story seemed totally out of place. I am still not sure what exactly it was that White was trying to achieve with her character in the story. It was a "weird" addition, rather than a "supportive" one, and the storyline would have read better without it. It is an enjoyable read though, and I took forward to more from Robin White in the future.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent first novel - more of the same please!
Having read many submarine thriller books by the likes of Michael De Mercurio and Patrick Robinson, I was pleased to find that Robin White has produced a novel that comfortably... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2004 by Mr. K. J. Santi

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
I bought this hoping for a beach book - a solid, workmanlike read in a genre that Tom Clancy has largely made his own. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2004 by Machiavelli

4.0 out of 5 stars Red October meets Crimson Tide
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Published on 10 May 2003 by S. D. Mowbray

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