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Title: Sweepers by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0-312-96447-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, interesting read
Comment: PT Deutermann did it again. Great characters and development. I really enjoyed his positive portrayal of the Dobermans in the book. Nice job! He got the dog's character down well. Protective, but never vicious. I'd have to recommend this book for any Doberman fan as well as people who enjoy a good action thriller.
Rating: 4
Summary: good, but not up to his previous works
Comment: Having read Deutermann in the past, i eagerly grabbed this book off the library shelf. i truly was on the edge of my seat for his other two books and for this one too, until the second and third times our hero and heroine were taken and/or taken in by the bad guy. pt, you are capable of better than this. i did enjoy it, though...
Rating: 3
Summary: Sweepers sweeps along
Comment: P.T. Deutermann has been writing Naval books like this for a while now. His genre has wound up being a book-length version of the TV show JAG. That means (for those of you who haven't seen the show) a cross between Tom Clancy and John Grisham. The setting is more Clancy, the plot more Grisham.
In this instance, a newly-promoted Admiral in the Navy is briefly a suspect in the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Her death was originally thought an accident, and only anomalies in the crime scene made the police suspicious. Because of the police suspicions, a female Commander in the Navy who's an investigator for JAG is assigned to liase with the police, and watch over the investigation to make sure that there aren't any scandals brewing (the book is set in the mid-90s, with Tailhook, Boorda's suicide, and various other scandals looming large in the rearview mirror). She's assigned a partner, a new civilian investigator from the Naval Investigative Service named "Train" von Rensel. They quickly ascertain that the villain of the piece is a Navy Seal that the Admiral abandoned one night in Viet Nam. The guy has been listed as MIA ever since, and apparently working for the CIA as a "sweeper", an assassin who kills other assassins who get out of line.
I had some problems with the book. The plot seems to plod along for the first half of the book, or so. It's 400+ pages and feels as if a hundred could have been deleted without much pain. The two main characters, Train and the girl, are a bit dull and uninspired in their attempts to unravel the circumstances of the original incident in Viet Nam, and the plot there contains a twist that was more than a bit of a coincidence and not particularly believable to me. Also I too had problems with the portrayal of the main bad guy, the Seal. While I have no difficulty imagining one of these guys turning into a criminal, I do get impatient with them being portrayed as undefeatable. In this instance, he's that throughout the book until the very end, when someone finally manages to momentarily surprise him, once. He does all of the super secret Ninja stuff, walk through walls, pick locks without it being apparent he did so, kill people and make it look like an accident, etc. It's a bit much.
Anyway, I still enjoyed the book at some level, and if you're into this sort of thing, I would recommend it.
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Title: Zero Option by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0312970048 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Edge of Honor by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0312953968 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Train Man by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0312973705 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Scorpion In The Sea by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0312951795 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hunting Season by P. T. Deutermann ISBN: 0312979061 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 17 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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