Customer Reviews

Carrier 05: Maelstrom

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Salute to Keith Douglass. The book is superbly written and it leaves me out of breath after reading the action-packed, fast-paced story. This book is the sole reason that keeps me looking for more of Keith Douglass actions.

Maelstrom was the best book of the series, he jumped right into the intense action that makes his books great from the begining. Book 5 is filled with intense Air Combat Manuvers and thrilling surface ship battles.

I've only read the first five Carrier books, but of those five this is probably the best. Douglas really goes at a blistering pace on this one. Maybe it's because he's already fleshed out the characters in his earlier stories, and thus can jump straight into the action. "Maelstrom" is one of the those books best read in two or three sittings. Intense, hard-hitting, suspensful.

I've been a fan of Mr. Keith (I hadn't realized he was writing under the house name of Keith Douglass before now) since the first "Carrier" came out. I bought the first 5 books in ereader format and now cannot find further ebooks, and am shocked, SHOCKED, at the over-$20 price tag now being sought for his books.

The "Carrier" series reminds me very much of Tom Clancy's earlier work: Written as though the author was either a current or recent ex-fighter pilot, with believable conflict situations and people-problem conflicts interwoven in excellent form.

Clancy seemed to fade out to shadow-author drivel years ago and Keith certainly filled a void in the adventure/action thriller category for me. But at these prices..... I'll keep looking for lower priced ebooks (my preferred format) or used paperbacks. I already spend a couple hundred a year on ebooks anyway at $6-$8 a pop; I will NOT spend over twenty bucks on a book unless it's some kind of long term reference manual.