{"id":4010,"date":"2007-09-12T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:58:19","slug":"book-report-seawitch-by-alistair-maclean-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/book-report-seawitch-by-alistair-maclean-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Seawitch by Alistair MacLean (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the other MacLean books I’ve read this year (Puppet on a Chain<\/a><\/i> and Santorini<\/a><\/i>), this book represents more “modern” MacLean (that is, up to date when he wrote them; in this case, the late 1970s). Unfortunately, like the other modern books, this one is a little thin relative to the action in, say, The Guns of Navarrone<\/i> or Where Eagles Dare<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This book details two MacLeanesque heroes who help out a rogue oil billionaire whose revolutionary oil platform, parked in the Gulf of Mexico, is under threat from a bad man employed by the traditional oil cartel. Weapons are fired. However, there really aren’t any plot twists to keep it going. It reads like a television or movie script.<\/p>\n

Still, a bad MacLean book is average suspense, so it’s not as though it’s a bad book; it’s just not the best in the MacLean oeuvre.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n