Shark Lake [Paperback]

John McKinna (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 5, 2001

"Absorbing...Drawing from his own experience as a commercial diver, McKinna is generous with the details." (Publishers Weekly)

Ben has vowed to save his imprisoned friend Nick-but never has friendship required such courage. Because Nick's makeshift cell is a dry well on a prison island-surrounded by shark-infested waters...

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (September 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451410068
• ISBN-13: 978-0451410061
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,643,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely First-Rate Adventure Story, December 7, 2001

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Michael Irwin Cole (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)

Shark Lake was wonderful. I enjoyed it from cover to cover, and particularly the dry sense of humor that pervades the writing. The story drove on hard and fast, but the characters were surprisingly real and sympathetic, if a little hard-bitten. (Especially one of the women! Tough as gristle!) In terms of the way he expresses himself, author John McKinna is a writer to watch. You can put your tongue in your cheek (where his seems to be most of the time!) and go along for the exciting and often humorous ride. I kid you not: the guy's good. There are two other books in this series (Crash Dive and Tiger Reef, according to Amazon) and one of them, Crash Dive, is about an Arab terrorist attack on a Louisiana oil rig--written in 1999! Talk about predicting the future. I'll be interested to see where McKinna's imagination takes him next.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Guy's Books., September 18, 2001

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Laurel Reyes (Passaic, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)

Goody. My man Ben Gannon's back in action. Shark Lake rocks! I red this in about four hours. I love diving and I love adventure, so I love John McKinna's books. Ben and Sass and the other characters make me laugh, cry, and get angry. And what a ride! These guy's books are always just great. He takes you all over the world, teaches you stuff, and introduces you to people you can't forget. I want to have Ben Gannon's children. He's the best.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Diving Adventure!, September 17, 2001

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Darren Levitt (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)

Simply another great entry in the action-adventure sweepstakes from author John McKinna. The third novel in the Ben Gannon deep-sea diving series, this one ups the ante from the previous books, Crash Dive and Tiger Reef, even further, and keeps the action, plot twists, and black humor coming thick and fast. McKinna has selected a disintegrating African country as a backdrop for what may be his finest book yet: an immensely entertaining prison break from an island fortress with enough wild action and funky characterizations to rival Indiana Jones and Dirk Pitt combined. Believeable, though. His heroes and heroines are very human. A great third effort from an author to watch. Bravo!