From Publishers Weekly
Unsuspecting readers are guaranteed sleepless nights as Garrison (Fire and Ice) out-Clancys the competition, tracking a driven Chinese admiral who leads a successful submarine invasion of Manhattan in the middle of a business day at the height of Fleet Week. Admiral Tang Li has slipped his diesel submarine force into the Hudson River and ventures into the Atlantic to torpedo a just-departed passenger liner to lure the visiting warships out of New York harbor. The invasion is intended to distract the U.S. from China's planned attack on Taiwan--but the obsessed Tang Li has more complex motives. Tugboat captain Ken Hughes is cruising the harbor with new love Kate Ross when Ken's tug is commandeered by Li's crew. Kate escapes in an inflatable raft, but Li makes the tug his command post, forcing Ken to help direct the subs. When Kate and Ken's buddy, TV reporter Jose Chin, tries to contact Mayor Rudolph Mincarelli (read Giuliani to a tee), Mincarelli's press secretary (and rumored lover), Renata Bradley, cuts them off. She is troubled enough, however, to hustle herself and the mayor out of Gracie Mansion. Meanwhile, 100 subs surface all around Manhattan, and commandos swarm ashore, shooting citizens, wiping out police stations and leveling One Police Plaza as they battle their way to City Hall and the World Trade Center. Garrison follows the battle through the travails of a wide ethnic mix of New York heroes, and the action hurtles along at bazooka blast speed, revealing the city and the harbor as Manhattan residents have never seen it before. National reaction and presidential response is understated and the cinematic confrontation between the main protagonists is a bit anticlimactic, but no matter: the blur of turning pages will keep readers engrossed. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
First it was King King, then Godzilla-and now an armada of Chinese submarines filled with soldiers has launched an attack on Manhattan, aiming to hold the city and the United States hostage. This is the probable but exciting premise of Garrison's second novel. Tugboart captain Ken Hughes and his new love, book editor Kate Hughes and his new love, book editor Kate Ross, are swept up by the events. Ken is captured by Chinese Admiral Tang Li, who wishes to be emporer of China, while Kate escapes to try and warn a disbelieving Gothem. There is action galore as the city and the nation fially areact to the peril. While this reviewer doesn'e think the United States has sold the Chinese quite enough secrets to enable them to pull off this caper, this book is exciting, escapist fun. Recommended for public libraries.--Robert Conroy, Warren, MICopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
"Paul Garrison pulls it off...[Garrison]has the knack for grabbing the reader by the throat."
"Unsuspecting readers are guaranteed sleepless nights."
Book Description
It's fleet week in New York City--but there are hungrey sharks swimming among the welcomed guests...As thousands of foreign ships clog the great city's harbor, beneath the surface of the Hudson River a rogue armada of Chinese attack submarines is taking up position, ready to launch a blitzkrieg attack on the unprepared and unsuspecting populace.Tugboat captain Ken Hughes knows New York harbor as few other navigators do. Now, in the midst of chaos and terror-on a familiar waterway that has suddenly turned hostile and deadlyhe finds himself on the front lines of the baffle to free a hostage Manhattan. Time is running out for a city under siege as Hughes, sailing enthusiast Kate Ross, and a courageous handful of desperate citizens race to prevent an explosive destiny that could paralyze a nation and reduce an island metropolis to rubble.
About the Author
Paul Garrison, author of the critically acclaimed thriller Fire and Ice, works with boats, tugs, and ships. Like his grandfather who wandered the South Seas in the last of the square-rigged copra-trading vessels, he travels where business takes him, and spends as much time as he can at sea. He is fascinated by the Far Pacific's violent past and volatile future, and the region's warrior men and women.
Red Sky at Morning FROM THE PUBLISHER
It's fleet week in New York City but there are hungrey sharks swimming among the welcomed guests...
As thousands of foreign ships clog the great city's harbor, beneath the surface of the Hudson River a rogue armada of Chinese attack submarines is taking up position, ready to launch a blitzkrieg attack on the unprepared and unsuspecting populace.
Tugboat captain Ken Hughes knows New York harbor as few other navigators do. Now, in the midst of chaos and terror-on a familiar waterway that has suddenly turned hostile and deadlyhe finds himself on the front lines of the baffle to free a hostage Manhattan. Time is running out for a city under siege as Hughes, sailing enthusiast Kate Ross, and a courageous handful of desperate citizens race to prevent an explosive destiny that could paralyze a nation and reduce an island metropolis to rubble.
SYNOPSIS
It is Fleet Week in New York, when foreign ships fill the great city's harbor in an incomparable display of naval grace and power. Ken Hughes and Kate Ross are only two of the millions joining in the celebration, watching the spectacle from aboard Ken's boat. Newly in love, they—-like everyone else—-are oblivious to the dangerous interlopers moving silently among the welcomed guests.
Beneath the surface of the Hudson River, an armada of Chinese attack submarines is readying to launch a blitzkrieg attack on the unprepared and unsuspecting populace. It is a brazen act of aggression, the brainchild of brilliant and obsessed Admiral Tang Li. And it seems predestined to succeed because of one terrifying truth: America's most vital and important city is virtually impossible to defend.
But in this gotham of strong wills and stubborn pride, there are those who won't be cowed. Ken Hughes knows New York harbor as few other navigators do. Now, in the midst of chaos and terror, he must elude a fearsome enemy by expertly maneuvering a familiar waterway that has suddenly turned hostile and deadly.
His allies are few, but equally determined: the ambitious, independent Kate Ross, whose sailing skills and new love will be tested to the extreme; and the besieged city's megalomaniacal mayor, who sees the invasion as a personal affront. Together they find themselves on the front lines of the battle to free a hostage Manhattan.
But urban grit alone cannot defeat an unstoppable army, as a courageous handful of desperate citizens races against time to prevent an explosive destiny that could paralyze their nation and reduce their island city to rubble.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Unsuspecting readers are guaranteed sleepless nights as Garrison (Fire and Ice) out-Clancys the competition, tracking a driven Chinese admiral who leads a successful submarine invasion of Manhattan in the middle of a business day at the height of Fleet Week. Admiral Tang Li has slipped his diesel submarine force into the Hudson River and ventures into the Atlantic to torpedo a just-departed passenger liner to lure the visiting warships out of New York harbor. The invasion is intended to distract the U.S. from China's planned attack on Taiwan--but the obsessed Tang Li has more complex motives. Tugboat captain Ken Hughes is cruising the harbor with new love Kate Ross when Ken's tug is commandeered by Li's crew. Kate escapes in an inflatable raft, but Li makes the tug his command post, forcing Ken to help direct the subs. When Kate and Ken's buddy, TV reporter Jose Chin, tries to contact Mayor Rudolph Mincarelli (read Giuliani to a tee), Mincarelli's press secretary (and rumored lover), Renata Bradley, cuts them off. She is troubled enough, however, to hustle herself and the mayor out of Gracie Mansion. Meanwhile, 100 subs surface all around Manhattan, and commandos swarm ashore, shooting citizens, wiping out police stations and leveling One Police Plaza as they battle their way to City Hall and the World Trade Center. Garrison follows the battle through the travails of a wide ethnic mix of New York heroes, and the action hurtles along at bazooka blast speed, revealing the city and the harbor as Manhattan residents have never seen it before. National reaction and presidential response is understated and the cinematic confrontation between the main protagonists is a bit anticlimactic, but no matter: the blur of turning pages will keep readers engrossed. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
Library Journal
First it was King King, then Godzilla-and now an armada of Chinese submarines filled with soldiers has launched an attack on Manhattan, aiming to hold the city and the United States hostage. This is the probable but exciting premise of Garrison's second novel. Tugboart captain Ken Hughes and his new love, book editor Kate Hughes and his new love, book editor Kate Ross, are swept up by the events. Ken is captured by Chinese Admiral Tang Li, who wishes to be emporer of China, while Kate escapes to try and warn a disbelieving Gothem. There is action galore as the city and the nation fially areact to the peril. While this reviewer doesn'e think the United States has sold the Chinese quite enough secrets to enable them to pull off this caper, this book is exciting, escapist fun. Recommended for public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/99.]-Robert Conroy, Warren, MI
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