Danger UXB

by Michael Booker

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330256718
• ISBN13: 9780330256711
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent novelization of the fictional series but...

For those who like realistic, nail-biting suspense, I heartily recommend they buy themselves the DVD miniseries "Danger UXB." Even though it was shot nearly thirty years ago before the era of elaborate special effects, I am amazed at how suspenseful and true-to-life it is. The novel (there is also at least one other nonfiction book about the same subject with the same title) is pretty faithful to the miniseries and is well-written. As did the series, it centers around young Lieutenant Brian Ash, newly minted bomb disposal officer living a dangerous life in the 1940 Blitz of London. However, there are also significant threads with the other characters. This being said...the novel ends well before the narrative of the miniseries (right around the end of part nine of the miniseries). I'm rather bewildered by this because I felt the full story was a good one and there was no need to abridge it in the novel. The only thing that I can think as to why is that the there was a need to put the book out very quickly. It's too bad, but as far as I'm concerned, the narrative of the miniseries is what happened.