Richard P. Henrick
Author of Crimson Tide [1995 film]
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- Legal name
- Henrick, Richard Paul
- Birthdate
- 1949-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- St Louis, Missouri, USA
- Places of residence
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Statistics
- Works
- 20
- Members
- 752
- Popularity
- #33,829
- Rating
- 3.2
- Reviews
- 12
- ISBNs
- 55
- Languages
- 2
There are a lot of discrepancies in the book. The dialogue is wooden, at times, and hardly believable. The situations are absurd. The feared Russian Spetsnaz are shown to be total pansies when the chips are down, thanks to American military police heroes. Uh huh. An oceanographer discovers an old college flame who's now a paleontologist with students on a dig near Vandenberg air base. So they immediately start up where they dropped things off 15 years previously and the reader has to suffer through lines like, "...he slowly gave himself until all was given. A whimper passed her lips as this gift was received deep in the tight, warm recesses of her womb." I'm not kidding. Worst sex scene ever. And there's an earthquake in Alaska that causes a tsunami to hit northern California. I have yet to figure out how this added to the plot. The oceanographer and an engineer fear sabotage and try to warn the Air Force higher ups, who won't listen, so when the Russians and terrorists are defeated and the shuttle makes it up and the satellite is launched, Russia backs down and the day is saved. Cheesy. Yet still somewhat entertaining. I wanted to put this book down and did a couple of times, but found myself drawn back to it every time, wanting to know what happened next. Not sure why. It's poorly written, the plot is bad, the dialogue choppy, but I still kind of liked it. A guilty pleasure? Sorry. I can't recommend it. But if you happen upon it in a used bookstore like I did and can get it for a buck, it's probably worth it.… (more)