The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson

The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson

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In 2006 a succession of huge underwater explosions has left three of the world's largest oil tankers burning in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. As world oil prices rocket, the US president's National Security Adviser orders the US Navy into the area, including the ageing submarine USS "Shark".

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The Shark Mutiny by Patrick Robinson

It is the year 2006, and a succession of massive underwater explosions has left three of the world's largest oil tankers burning fiercely in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. nited States military intelligence conclude that the Iranians have finally carried out their long-standing threat to lay a minefield across the narrow seaway leading to the Persian Gulf. Worse yet, they plainly did it with the active assistance of the People's Rebublic of China. As world oil prices go berserk, Admiral Morgan, the US President's National Security Adviser, order the US Navy instantly into the area - five carrier battle groups, sixty ships, while the minesweepers go desperately to work. ran can be contained. But Admiral Morgan rounds on China, and develops a plan to eliminate their brand-new oil refinery in Hormuz, and then flatten their equally new Navy base in Burma. In the dead of night, the Navu SEALS go in, delivered by the ageing submarine USS Shark, for two sensational clandestine attacks. But in Burma they are on the run, pursued by the Chinese across the long, flat rice-growing deltas of the Bassein and Irrawaddy rivers. he scenario is lethal. Shark's Commanding Officer decides
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ISBN 13 9780712680431
ISBN 10 0712680438
Title The Shark Mutiny
Author Patrick Robinson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 2001-05-03
Number of pages 400
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