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A top-ten bestselling author & the unrivalled master of the action thriller. Another brilliantly conceived and breathlessly executed thriller international bestseller and multi-million copy selling author Patrick Robinson, HMS Unseen is a dazzling, high-octane page-turner. Fans of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Frederick Forsyth will not be disappointed! 'Britain's answer to Tom Clancy' - Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller 'The new Frederick Forsyth' -- Guardian 'A tour de force' - Express 'A riveting hi-tech action thriller' - Northern Echo 'Difficult to put this book down' -- ***** Reader review 'Cracking good read' -- ***** Reader review 'A must for all that love fast action' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************** IT MUST BE STOPPED, WHATEVER THE COST... The deadliest ship in the world has fallen into the hands of a terrorist enemy - Ben Adnam, the man believed to be behind the destruction of the Thomas Jefferson, has returned to seek his revenge on his Iraqi paymasters and the country that betrayed him. He defects to Iran, where he is helped in his plan to transform a stolen submarine into a unique weapon capable of causing the most shocking air strikes in an American history. His vengeance on the US is devastating, H. M. S. Unseen is lost, and the blame appears to lie with Iraq. It is up to Admiral Arnold Morgan to prove his suspicions that Iraq isn't responsible, and that Adnam is the only man skilful enough to orchestrate such an attack. But time is running out...

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A brilliantly conceived and breathlessly executed thriller. * Kirkus Reviews * Patrick Robinson's best book yet. HMS Unseen, the third volume of his brilliant naval series is a dazzling, page-turning yarn that establishes its author as a master craftsman of the techno-thriller. No one does it better - not even Tom Clancy. Highly recommended. * Carol D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War * Fast, sharply-focussed, engine-driven action. * Express * Watch out for Robinson. He is in the same league as Clancy. * Birmingham Post *

Robinson, rising master of naval technothrillers (Nimitz Class, 1997, is now being filmed by Universal Pictures), returns with his second supersubmarine tale, something of a sequel to 1998's Kilo Class. As in Nimitz Class - where a US aircraft carrier disappeared in the Arabian Sea without a trace - a very rare advanced-design, diesel-electric submarine, H.M.S. Unseen, seemingly evaporates into the unknown off the English coast while headed for Brazil. A year later, a Concorde jet also disappears, this time over the North Atlantic, and soon thereafter a supremely high-tech, supersonic Starstriker jet vanishes as well, leaving nary a splash in its wake. Then Air Force Three, with the American Vice President on board, is blown from the sky. What's causing all this havoc? Well, believe it or not, H.M.S. Unseen has been subnapped by Iraqi terrorists and is now under the charge of Commander Ben Adnam, the wiliest terrorist seen in many a year. Adnam comes up against his own match, however, in the figure of National Security Advisor Admiral Arnold Morgan, though not before misleading Morgan into having the US fire missiles on Iran, letting that country take the vengeance that should've been wreaked on the real ringmasters who'd shot down Air Force Three. Far more smoothly written than Tom Clancy's mammoth digital readouts. (Kirkus Reviews)

A brilliantly conceived and breathlessly executed thriller. Kirkus Reviews Patrick Robinson's best book yet. HMS Unseen, the third volume of his brilliant naval series is a dazzling, page-turning yarn that establishes its author as a master craftsman of the techno-thriller. No one does it better - not even Tom Clancy. Highly recommended. Carol D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War Fast, sharply-focussed, engine-driven action. Express Watch out for Robinson. He is in the same league as Clancy. Birmingham Post

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PATRICK ROBINSON is the author of six previous international bestselling thrillers- Nimitz Class, Kilo Class, H. M. S. Unseen, Seawolf, The Shark Mutiny, Barracuda 945 and, most recently, Scimitar SL-2. He is also the author of several non-fiction bestsellers including True Blue (with Dan Topolski) and Born to Win. He is the co-author with Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward of One Hundred Days.

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