The Brutus Lie: A Novel [Hardcover]

John J. Gobbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1991

Reunited after thirty-five years of Cold War, brothers and bitter enemies Lofton and Dobrynyn pursue their individual goals of outwitting each other, unaware that their deaths have been ordered at the highest government levels. Reprint. PW.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Brutus is a top-secret, state-of-the-art minisub. When its designer, ex-SEAL Brad Lofton, witnesses a murder that heralds a betrayed intelligence operation, he commandeers the sub for a desperate voyage to Russia. There he discovers that he and Brutus are pawns in a deeper game, involving a Soviet officer who is Lofton's identical twin brother, and their father, a Russian mole at the heart of America's defense system. National loyalties clash with ties of blood to produce a story line whose fast pace compensates for the unconvincing plot device of twins, separated as infants and raised in different cultures, whose behaviors are nevertheless so similar that one can immediately substitute for the other. Readers willing to overlook first-novelist Gobbell's debt to The Prisoner of Zenda will be rewarded by a knowledgeable presentation of modern minisub technology, an effective depiction of Russia's naval Spetsnaz , and the extended escape-and-evasion narrative as Lofton and his brother flee Russia in Brutus , pursued by everything the Soviet navy can muster.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 357 pages
• Publisher: Scribner; 1ST edition (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684192497
• ISBN-13: 978-0684192499
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #996,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)