Ghost Force (Admiral Arnold Morgan) [Kindle Edition]

Patrick Robinson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Set in 2011, this disappointing techno-thriller from bestseller Robinson (Hunter Killer) focuses on a proxy war between the United States and Russia. Russia's fear that Siberia, its prime source of oil, might move further away from its control and even possibly begin supplying the Chinese, leads its spies to carry out a brazen assassination in the White House and to incite Argentina to recapture the Falkland Islands, where oil has recently been discovered. But even that improbable plot soon becomes subservient to a clichéd rescue mission by U.S. Navy SEALS to save some British counterparts left behind after the Argentine invasion. None of the characters has much life, and enough details fail to ring true to make suspension of disbelief a challenge. Thriller fans interested in such topical issues as the current conflict in Iraq, the global war on terror and concerns that Iran and North Korea will become nuclear powers will have to look elsewhere. (May)
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Product Description

The year is 2011.

An oil-hungry world is starving . . .

. . . and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years—unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship-killingtorpedoes.

America cannot sit idle as hell explodes in the South Atlantic and, under the stern eye of Admiral Arnold Morgan, the military's most powerful weapon is unleashed to hammer Argentina into submission: the U.S. Navy SEALs. The outcome of the unforeseen war that's igniting in America's backyard ultimately depends upon her awesome "ghost force” and their successful execution of two remarkable clandestine missions—while the consequences of failure may be too terrible to consider.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 497 KB
• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books (October 13, 2009)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000JMKOFU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,714 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Patrick Robinson is the co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller, "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense - the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers."

Before that, he co-authored Lone Survivor for Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell which was #1 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for eight months in 2007.

Patrick is also the author of eleven international bestselling suspense thrillers, including To the Death, Nimitz Class, Hunter Killer, and Diamondhead, the first book in his brand new series.

He lives in Ireland and spends his summers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Most inaccurate Robinson book yet, April 7, 2007

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S. Collins "S.F.Author" (Fort Campbell, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Force (Hardcover)

I personally lost count as to how many times the SEALs (in enemy territory) were quoted as 'yelling'. That personally amazed me. Then we have the same SEALs and SAS operators using 'flashlights' in enemy territory again. Then they placed explosive charges in 'Both' A4 Skyhawk engines, when they only have one. Then they placed their initiating daisy chain for all the explosives on the tarmac connected to each other on a four hour time delay. Wrong Wrong Wrong. You just do not do that. Next you have the SATCOM communication gear being 'direction finded' by the enemy radio operators. That doesnt happen. They use a narrow satellite beam and it is directed directly at the satellite. Another big wrong situatio was when one of the operators was wounded, and they are ripping shirts and other items to dress the wound. Nope! the SEAL corpsman would have broke open his London Bridge trauma bag and dealt with it.

There were just too many errors in the technical and tactical operations of this book, they simply distracted from the story (over and over again) I usually run through a book in a day or so, but this one, I had to put down over and over until I forced myself to get through it.

I am ranking this 3 stars based upon Patrick Robinsion's past novels. If it was a stand alone, it would rate 1- 1.5 stars, max.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, September 16, 2006

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Richard M. Wood "Mike" (Charleston, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Force (Hardcover)

Robinson needs a new technical editor. He has SEALs stumbling around in the dark without night vision devices, A-4 Skyhawks with 2 engines, a SEAL team that turns into a SAS team after 40 pages, SEALs carrying the tripod for a M60 on a long mission, a long time SEAL with no parachute experience, and a poorly thought out campaign by the British to retake the Falkland islands (apparently the British do not have any stand off weapons such as cruise missles).

I gave up on Robinson while reading Scimitar because he had Iranians speaking Arab to each other. As most people know, Iranians speak Farsi because Iranians are not Arabs, they are Persians - the original Aryans.

I gave this book a try because the jacket made it interesting but I will not be reading any more of his work.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's time for Robinson to retire, February 11, 2007

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Bipin Sen (Lansing, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Force (Hardcover)

This book wasn't even worth the eight bucks I spent on it buying it used. Robinson continues to write the same kind of material, with the same cast of characters, with the same plot lines. The true mark of an author is to spin a story that's not already been told, especially by the same person! This story would have been no different if General Ravi Rashood appeared as a mercenary for the Argentineans. There are no real-life characters in Robinson's books - just caricatures of how we expect people to be: Presidents, Prime Ministers, politicians, SEALs, what have you...

I suggest a summer writing camp for Robinson to sharpen up that old pencil, and learn how to write a decent book that's not a copy and paste of the ten books that have gone before it.