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Book Review: Phoenix Sub Zero by Michael Dimercurio

As this story begins, the Europeans and Americans find themselves in a war against the Arabic nations of the middle east, who have united in an alliance to defeat the ‘infidel west’. In terms of the overall technical descriptions of the submarines and naval warfare in the story, such as the lives of the sailors on the subs, and the intricate workings of the subs from engineering to the conn, Dimercurio has done an excellent job.

The story itself is fairly decent, and eerie considering it was written in 1994, well before most of the terrorist attacks of the 1990’s (USS Cole, embassy bombings) and certainly before 9/11. Dimercurio writes the book much in the same style that Tom Clancy uses to spin his tales, but doesn’t quite hit that same mark. You can get a pretty good picture of what will happen well before the end of the story arrives. Still though, it’s an excellent warfare adventure book, and worth the time to read.

Rating: ***