Customer Reviews

Hatteras Blue

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An author that actually knows something about diving is rare. One of that category that can actually spin a yarn is a gem.

This is the best diving book I've read. It's mostly technically accurate, and the highly fallible leading man is more believable than your usual Roger Ramjet hero type.

I highly recommend the entire series.

I read Poyer's Blue books out of sequence. I read Lousiana Blue first, then Bahamas Blue, The Sea Down Under, and finally Hatteras Blue. I enjoy Tiller Galloway's character, though not as much as Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt.

Although Hatteras Blue does not delve into the technical aspects of diving nearly as deep (no pun intended) as the other books I found it to be more believeable and entertaining.

I discovered Poyer by mistake when someone put a copy of China Sea in my mailbox at work. I find Tiller Galloway in the "Blue" books and W.T. Halvorsen in the "Hemlock County" books to be more interesting than Dan Lenson in the modern Navy books.

I mentioned Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt character earlier. If you like a great adventure book thats a ball to read get a Clive Cussler book. After you've read everything from Cussler sit down with a Poyer book. They are not the quite the same but I find Poyer to be informative and entertaining.

I guess it's just too much to ask to want a novel with a great setting, a plot centered around diving, and a little plausibility. Mr. Poyer doesn't develop his characters much, and misses a great chance to describe the book's setting. He also dumbs down descriptions of diving and diving related maladies. (I think if readers can hang with Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy they could handle an accurate description of nitrogen narcosis). Plausibility is the last straw, though. Nobody could buy this plot.

I expected more, since this was the first of the Tiller Galloway series by Poyer, all of which I'd read. HB was good, just not GREAT like I expected it would be.