Fatal Thunder

An excellent copy.

Love the Jerry Mitchell series, can't wait for the next one.

Larry Bond has done it again a gripping read and a great addition to the Jerry Mitchell series

Well up to Bonds standards

Very god indeed

When a nuclear bomb explodes in Kashmir, the world immediates blames India, now in a shaky truce with Pakistan. The bomb takes out a Muslim terrorist camp and surrounding villages.But as national security adviser Joanna Patterson investigates, she finds the nuclear signature different from the bombs used by either India or Pakistan. Where did this bomb come from? Who detonated it? Do they have any more? And what are they planning to do with them?The answers lead to an Indian military cabal. Someone with crucial information will only talk to one person: American sub captain Jerry Mitchell, a former adversary whom he respects. So begins a surreptitious effort to expose the plot and stop it from starting nuclear war.I enjoyed how Bond draws together threads from the entire Mitchell saga - an Indian skipper whose sub he stalks in “Shattered Trident”, a Russian captain from “Cold Choices”, and a Soviet-era underwater nuclear dump from “Dangerous Ground” that Mitchell found out about on his first cruise. That was where he met Patterson, then a nuclear contamination specialist, and where she met her future husband, the sub’s captain and now a senator, Lowell Hardy.We all know, of course, that efforts to stymie the plot in port will fail, that a rogue submarine will set off on its mission, and that Mitchell will have to go after it.The submarine detail, as always, is very good - the strategy of the hunt, the attacks and countermeasures, and the deep reasoning that goes into every step.

Well folks you certainly can't lose if you purchase this bookl. Larry Bond is a great story teller and the action is reasonable and believable. The pace of the book keeps the pages being turned and for my opinion well worth the money.

This book is part of a series regarding Jerry Mitchell as a US Navy nuclear attack submarine commander. The plots are always GeoPolitical but based on the current world situation all quite plausible. This adds to the realistic situations. In this novel, India, China and Russia are all involved in another possible war. The US attempts to remain neutral but once again gets dragged into having to take a role in trying to prevent an escalation.I found some of the dialogue from the Indian, Chinese, and Russian characters seeming stilted and unrealistic from some of the action sequences but perhaps that is just me thinking that.I enjoyed this book but do not think it is as good as the others in the series.

Enjoy the series. Typical but still entertaining.

Like previous Jerry Mitchell books in the series this one is also full of excitement. Mitchell is only featured shortly early on but a lot more towards the end. Then the action really picks up.