- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Onyx (MM) (Sep 6 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451410068
- ISBN-13: 978-0451410061
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,243,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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...
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...
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3.0 out of 5 stars
So So,
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This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)
I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as everyone else. A year after reading it, I can't really remember too much of the plot except for the main story. I couldn't remember Ben Gannon's name, or who he was trying to rescue and why. What i do remember is that the story kind of bored me. I bought it because I hav a large interest in sharks, and have thought the idea of bull sharks being able to swim in fresh waters fascinating. Of course, i figured a title like "Shark Lake" would be filled with shark stuff. The sharks take up maybe 30 pages in the book, and the book wasn't really about sharks. It was an action/adventure story about a rescue, that happened to have some sharks in it. Kind of like an episode of MacGyver, except with less duct tape and more sharks. I didn't feel that the main character, Gannon, was very wel developed. I wasn't very interested in him, and there were weak attempts to create a back story revolving his love life. I don't even remember who the vilian was in this story or how he died, but it must not have been very exciting to me not to have stuck. While I don't really feel I wasted my money, I would have rather have checked this out from the library than spent $8 on it. It's a decent novel, but there are thousands like it and Ben Gannon is more of a "poor man's Dirk Pitt (from the Clive Cussler novels). If you're a fast reader and just want to pick this up for a day at the beach, it's not a bad read. But don't invest too much time or money into it. While the book was okay, I don't have any interest in following up on the adventures of Ben Gannon.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Industrial word-candy.,
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This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)
John McKinna knocked it way out of the park with Shark Lake, the best of his three excellent Ben Gannon novels. You can taste steel, smell sea-water, hear the clang of iron giants with his incredable tanent for capturing the exact essence of a working man's world. His characters are as complex, humorous and quirky as the people in our own lives that we think of as "real characters." The action, twists and turns, and empathy for our heros keeps you reading when you should be sleeping. He pulls no punches in driving home the danger, roller coaster thrills, and just deserts for the bad guys. Is is concentrated industrial word-candy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, great writer--New novel on the market....,
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This review is from: Shark Lake (Paperback)
Shark Lake is simply a great read; the third Ben Gannon diving thriller from John McKinna. From his website I've learned that he has diverted his considerable talents into writing World War Two thrillers under the pen name "John Mannock", and that IRON COFFIN, the first of these books, is about to be released world-wide. Another diving adventure, with a WWII U-boat theme, it sounds like another winner from this tremendously talented writer, still in the early stages of his career. It won't be long now, as demonstrated by SHARK LAKE, TIGER REEF, and CRASH DIVE, that John McKinna--aka "John Mannock"--will be as world-renowned a thriller writer as Jack Higgins, Clive Cussler, and Ken Follett. Great writer, great novels.
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