Armageddon: 1973 - Part 1
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend On New Year's Eve, under cover of a terrible storm, a Soviet nuclear submarine attempts to land men and equipment on a poverty-stricken, British-held Caribbean island. The men and equipment are part of Fidel Castro's aid program to the Communist guerillas operating in the jungle carpeted mountains. The landing is detected by the British forces on the island, resulting in a tense duel of wits between the British and Soviet commanders...a duel which at any moment could… Product details and pricing info |
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9 Customer Reviews Posted
- Could this have happened?
- A Russian submarine armed with nuclear missiles surfaces during a storm in the Caribbean off an island plagued with guerrilla fighters and protected by a small British Military force. Can the Russians complete their clandestine mission before being discovered? How will the British react if they do discover them? This one left me wanting to find the answers and fast.
- 2008-07-20, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- On The Brink Of Annihilation
- Have you ever found yourself on the brink of annihilation? Can you imagine what it would be like to know that any moment could be your last?
John Cassell places the reader directly inside a ticking time bomb. The Soviet's have shown up at St. Margaret's with bad intentions. Not that the tiny place is a picture of tranquility with all the guerilla activity, but no one saw this coming. Eventually the Russian visitors are discovered, to much disbelief. After several attempts to find an alternative answers, soldiers finally agree that the impossible has happened. Tonight they may be wiped from the map.
All the St. Margaret "dignitaries" are gathered for a New Year's Eve celebration, oblivious to what is happening around them. Soldiers muster together to face incalculable odds. The weather and their lack of manpower surely place them as sitting ducks. The British harbor thoughts, and rightly so, of turning tail and running, but Hill emboldens the troops to dare the impossible. The decision is made and the battle of wills begins. But will it be the beginning of World War III?
I invited you to read for yourself. The answers will leave you breathless. And I find myself wondering, was Mr. Cassell really there on St. Margaret's that night? - 2008-03-28, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- On the Brink of WWIII
- What is Armageddon? The war to end all wars? The final conflict? John Cassell has written in two parts a fascinating tale of a single incident that, handled wrong, could have catapulted nations into Armageddon. In part one Cassell expertly builds up the tension of an ongoing military confrontation which carries the omnious possibility for a catastrophic conclusion. We are taken inside the build up as one force prepares to supply comrades while the opposing force decides on the best course for intervening. This intrusion demands immediate, yet measured with reasoning, response. What will become of the world if this isolated standoff escalates into something more . . . My review continues in Part 2
Joshua Berry, author of Andrea's Dream and numerous Amazon Shorts - 2007-08-22, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Like a Clancy, Coonts and Brown Collaboration.
- A well written enjoyable and believable account of what might have been. Line after line of suspense and chicanery holds your interest through out.
The only issues I found was that it ended much to quickly. - 2007-08-06, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Watch out, Clancy!
- Apocalyptic stories based on potential nuclear annihilation are not new. There are basically two angles from which such stories are written: the timeline that leads up to the apocalypse and how an involuntarily-chosen few attempt to prevent it, or the aftermath of the apocalypse where people are forced to survive in a changed world. Some stories combine the two angles into one arching epic; it takes a very special writer to pull that off well.
Armageddon: 1973 - Part 1 takes the first angle. It shoots out of the chute with action and intrigue, and it continues to unfold layer after layer until the reader is left with a full-blown apocalyptic crisis beginning to rear its head. John Cassell has crafted a work that closely echoes Tom Clancy's mastery of the genre. His writing comes across as effortless, and very knowledgable, especially with regard to technical military matters (however, it's not at all dry or dull). He has shown the story as it takes place from all sides and develops a palpable tension that builds to the end, forcing the reader to not only ponder what has taken place but to instill a strong desire to find out what has yet to take place in Part 2.
As for turning this into an arching epic as I described previously, I believe John W. Cassell could do it. I really do. - 2007-07-24, 8 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
