Customer Reviews

Normandie Triangle

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Here is an intriguing story based on the destruction of the world's most beautiful ocean liner in her time, the French Line's Normandie and an American man who wanted to copy her for his own country's project for an ocean greyhound.

Justin uses the well worn theory of sabotage in his story and Normandie destruction being part of a plan for even more carnage.

Set against a race for time, Justin uses the then secret underworld of the spying network that both sides used during the second world war.

Famous people from the salvage operation are interwoven into this novel.

A high impact conclusion rounds out the storyline.

Although the plot does drag on a bit (it could have easily shedded a hundred pages) I found it an enjoyable story the based itself on an actual event that still has some unanswered questions to answer for it.

This book has haunted me for over a decade it is that good of a thriller. When I found it here at Amazon I bought it again, to replace my lost original. While the writing is not Dickens, or Lewis it is the story that stayed in my mind. Now whenever, it haunts me I can simply pick of my copy and read it again.

It really needs to be re-released, or better yet released on Kindle; my new copy is almost as ancient as my lost original, and I have to treat it carefully!

Five stars for the Normandie Triangle, an old favorite that I have just bought and read again. The story and characters, as another reviewer indicated, do stick with you; this is my third copy of the book. The New York City settings make the book particularly enjoyable. I always think of the Normandie and this book when passing Pier 88, in the midst of a long series of parks that now line the Hudson River from the Battery to northern Manhattan.

The references to a navy blimp base at NAS Rockaway were puzzling. The blimp hangar at NAS Rockaway burned down in the early 20s and the base closed at around 1930. It was plowed under to make Jacob Reis Park. But, historical information on the web shows a blimp shed right next door at Fort Tilden that was there until after WWII. So, Scott's blimp action might indeed have originated a short distance from the former NAS Rockaway and who's to say what folks called it back then.

A good book when it was new and good book today. I wish it and Scott's other books and those that he wrote under his Paul Garrison pen name were on Kindle. He is writing the new Isaac Bell series with Clive Cussler. They--the third episode comes out next month--are equally entertaining.

I guess it was ok. Kinda unremarkable, but still ok. The characters were ok, the plot was ok, everything was ok, ok?