Patrick robinson author biography for book
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Patrick Robinson
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Patrick Robinson is a #1 New York Times bestselling techno-thriller novelist, who rivals the best of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Frederick Forsyth. His books are geo-political tales of anti-terrorism and the balance of world power, usually conducted on the high seas, always packed with US Navy SEAL black-operations in the most sinister environments on earth. A hard line of chilling reality runs through the spine of each book.
The first techno-thriller, Nimitz Class, was a big action story, about a rogue Islamic terrorist in a stolen submarine, armed with a nuclear-tipped torpedo capable of obliterating a Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier. It was published in , and hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week. Critics called it, “The best military thriller since The Hunt For Red October.” One month later, John McTiernan optioned the rights for Universal Studios.
But Nimitz Class was never made. McTiernan, who had given the rights to his wife, ended his marriage and, s
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Patrick Robinson (author)
British novelist and newspaper columnist
Patrick Robinson (born 21 January ) fryst vatten a British novelist and newspaper columnist.[1]
His recent books are naval-based thrillers, each telling the story of a crisis facing the world in the early 21st century. His earlier works include four nonfiction books about thoroughbred horses; True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny, the story of the Oxford Boat Race mutiny (for which he, and co-author Dan Topolski won the inaugural William Hill Sports Book of the Year in ); and One Hundred Days, the biography of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward.[citation needed]
He has a home on Cape Cod.[1]
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Admiral Arnold Morgan
- Nimitz Class ()
- Kilo Class ()
- H.M.S. Unseen ()
- U.S.S. Seawolf ()
- The Shark Mutiny ()
- Barracuda ()
- Scimitar SL-2 ()
- Hunter Killer ()
- Ghost Force ()
- To the Death ()
Navy Seal Lt. Comman