Phoenix Sub Zero

by Michael DiMercurio

Book Overview

It's up to Captain Michael Pacino and the U.S.S. Seawolf to find the enemy-the finest super-sub that Arab oil money could buy-and destroy it before it can deliver its lethal payload to the shores of America. He faces the ultimate battle between the most advanced weapons technology on the planet...and the sheer force of human courage.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451406036
• ISBN13: 9780451406033
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

First Submarine Thriller

While it may not have been a super accurate flood of minutia, it is a credit to his writing style. Its a tense book that had just enough action to keep me on the edge of my seat. It was the first submarine book I read while i was deployed in iraq. Due to Dimercurio's skill it got me started on a very long string of Sumbarine books that I have yet to stop reading. Great place to start.

Excellent Book. Good follow up to "Voyage of the Devilfish".

If you like Tom Clancy you'll love Dimercurio

DiMercurio's books just keep getting better and better!

Phoenix Sub Zero is DiMercurio's third novel, and is even more thrilling and engrossing than his previous two. The scope of the plot is much larger, covering much of the globe, from the deserts of Iran all the way to the polar ice cap. The Destiny-class Hegira is a very well thought-out and described in detail, with interesting descriptions of an artificially-intelligent neural network as the sub's computer system. The action scenes, of course, and spectacular, and described in intricate detail. I can't wait to pick up the author's next novel, "Barracuda: Final Bearing"!

Very hard to fault!

A scenario where all the Middle Eastern and North African countries become an Islamic super-coalition forms the basis for this excellent and riveting submarine action thriller. When a Navy SEAL attack on a military installation in Turkmenistan fails, the Islamic dictator Sihoud escapes to the Mediterranean and the United Islamic Front's(didn't Tom Clancy 'borrow' this angle for a large part of EXECUTIVE ORDERS a year afterwards?!!) latest ultramodern sub, the HEGIRA, with a neural network computer and supersonic Scorpion cruise missiles armed with plutonium glue warheads targeted at Washington. And as the story develops, two 688-class subs try to stop the HEGIRA. One is sunk, the other forced to bottom out in scenes which give you a genuine sense of claustrophobia! This book puts you right in the thick of the action as well as on-going heroes Admiral Donchez and Captain Pacino try to stop the UIF's weapon of mass destruction! Definitely one that is unputdownable. The action and thrills come thick and fast, the weapons systems of the future are well explained and feasible and the characters are very well crafted, with more dimension and feeling that some other techno-thrillers I've read. On the whole,highly recommended even for non-military readers.