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Scorpion's Dance

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Warren Murphy's not just a terrific writer, he's a prophet, as you can tell by reading his novel "Scorpion's Dance." It was published 20 years ago BUT with its devastating look at terrorism, it still reads as if it were ripped out of today's headlines. Exciting adventure with the author's trademark humor, this book will be liked by everybody....except those poor souls who prefer their novels with a large helping of political correctness and artificial sweetener.

I bought the book when it came out in 1990 and liked it--but Murphy never writes a book I don't like--or hasn't yet and I've read them all since the early 70s--I love his wit and ironic view of the world and its inhabitants

I read this book a few years back and LOVED it. I was cruising through Amazon and came across it offered as collectible and was surprisd to see a bad review on it. It was exciting and felt like it had good insight into the terrorist mindset. I read it very quickly, on a vacation. And I'm a slow reader so that says a lot. Couldn't put it downas I recall. Don't hesitate to buy this one. It's great!

The book is a tri-polar screed, alternating between break-neck action sequences, lengthy droning back-story on the main characters, and random tirades against liberal politics and ideology. The villains in the story, caricatures of "Ay-Rabs", are just plain bad. Their motivations are never really explained beyond an irrational desire to attack THE USA.

Chapter after chapter is devoted to the social interactions of the main characters, which seem to serve no direct purpose to advancing the plot beyond adding some length and spice to the book. Eventually, I stopped reading this tripe and just skimmed past it, so that I could find the spontaneous attacks on liberal social policy and ideology. The author lashes out at the UN, the liberal media, tax-raising politicians, and more. The author's blatant disdain for the Left interferes with the plot of the book, and reminds me of the crap written by Patrick Robinson in Barracuda 945.

I stopped reading the book after the most ridiculous action sequence I've ever read. A cruise ship is hijacked by 10 or so terrorists, but is liberated on a lark by the 3 main characters in the book - 2 of which seem to not really have any counter terrorism experience. They kill all of the terrorists without any civilian or good-guy casualties. Oh yeah, they also miraculously have a silent helicopter that allows them to assault the ship and trick the terrorists.

Crap writing, crap reading, don't waste your time.