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Delta Solution, The [Hardcover]

Patrick Robinson

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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Vanguard Press; 1 edition (April 13 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593156472
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593156473
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 2.9 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 386 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #147,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“The high-action thriller lives on. Here is a rare tale that’s not only ripped-from-the-headlines timely, but also so elegantly structured as to evoke comparisons with masters like Vince Flynn, Steve Berry, and James Rollins. An instant, surefire classic that is not to be missed.”
—Jon Land, bestselling author of Strong Justice

“Readers will cheer as Mack and his team solve the vexing problem of Somali pirates.”
Publisher’s Weekly
 

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The Delta Solution is an action-packed novel dealing with the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean.

For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, especially oil tankers, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. Pirating out of the tiny Somalian village of Haradheere has become a very lucrative, dangerous business, so much so that the village has its own Stock Exchange with a reputed $78 million cash, all in crisp $100 bills, in the town vault. And each time an owner pays big for the return of their ship, the pirates immediately do it again, enraging the Pentagon more and more by the day.

That is, until the "Somali Marines" make a big mistake, seizing at gun point two United States ships and demanding a $15 million ransom for their return.

Hero Mack Bedford, previously encountered in Diamondhead and Intercept, is deployed to SEAL Team 10 to form The Delta Platoon. His objective: obliterate the Somali Marines in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all.


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Amazon.com: 2.9 out of 5 stars (30 customer reviews)

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Jack Sparrow Type of Pirates, May 5 2011
By Robert Abidor "Arizona Bob" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Delta Solution, The (Hardcover)
It seems as if the Somalian pirates are the 2011 evil-doers of choice. Almost simultaneously, Patrick Robinson and Wilbur Smith have hit us with similar tales of revenge against pirate deeds. Sadly, both books are far from their authors best efforts. Focusing on The Delta Solution, Patrick Robinson has provided us with a very uneven book. He spends 80% of the book working on multiple pirate attacks and some SEAL training stories. Then, almost as if an afterthought, he concludes with a fairly simplistic attack first on a seized ship and then on the pirate's headquarters. The attack is carried out with routine precision and without any excitement or threat of failure. Perhaps as more details of the SEAL attack on Osama bin Laden come out, we will find out the pitfalls of real attacks. Sadly, Robinson offers none in the Delta Solution.

Over the next few weeks I am sure that the hunger for tales of SEAL missions will drive some to The Delta Solution. Frankly, I would suggest you read some of Patrick Robinson's earlier works and avoid Delta.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Go back to writing about subs, Pat!, Jun 16 2011
By No Longer Frustrated! - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Delta Solution, The (Hardcover)
As a fairly loyal Robinson fan, I picked up this book, his newest. All I can say is, it is in no way up to his previous standards. The writing is hackneyed, full of cliches (their "long" flight across the "burning desert" (4 hours is long?...), absolutely full of factual goofs that Patrick Robinson, of all people, should have known better. My favorite -- a single page that had both the SEALS packing for battle with "dynamite" (instead of C4) and a cruise ship that was described as 360 feet long, 50 feet wide, and drawing 176 feet! That's one odd ship...

I also got very tired of reading speeds described as "knots per hour"..c'mon, Pat!

Seriously, was this turkey ever looked at by the editors at all?

What happened here? Was there a ghost writer we should know about? Clearly there were no editors.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars timely engaging thriller, April 30 2011
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Delta Solution, The (Hardcover)
Mohammed "the Godfather of the Dark Continent" Salat provides the funding and orders to the Somali Marines. This group of pirates is extremely well trained and equipped to achieve their mission of capturing tankers and cargo ships off the Somali coast.

Salat sends his brigands to capture the American freighter Niagara Falls whose $100 million dollar cargo belongs to the United States Agency for Internationals Development. Refusing to pay the $10 million dollar ransom demands, the American government assigns Commander Mackenzie "Mack" Bedford to lead a newly activated SEALs team Delta Platoon. Their current mission is to mount sea rescues and end the Somali Marines' piracy by assaulting their headquarters in Haradheere, Somalia.

The keys to this timely engaging thriller are that the SEALs receive focused training and the Somali Marines are a very capable organized unit. Once the cast is set and the team ready to invade, The Delta Solution goes into hyperspeed as Mack and his elite team assault the impenetrable base of the Somali marines knowing the likelihood that many SEALs will not come home even in body bags and the collateral damage is a certainty. Less action than Mack's previous adventures (see Intercept and Diamondhead), The Delta Solution is a more complete thriller as the audience observes two highly trained and effective units prepare for a showdown in the Indian Ocean.

Harriet Klausner
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