| Title | : | Lethbridge-Stewart: Blood of Atlantis (#9) |
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| ISBN | : | 0995482101 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780995482104 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
| Publication | : | First published November 1, 2016 |
Lethbridge-Stewart’s nephew, Owain Vine, and a group of eco-protestor friends, are attempting to oppose an operation undertaken by Rolph Vorster, a ruthless South African mining magnate with his own private army, who is out to harvest as much Atlantean riches as he can.
Lethbridge-Stewart, along with Anne Travers, is called in to investigate a missing Russian submarine that appears to be connected to Atlantis, recruiting the colourful eccentric archaeologist, Sonia Montilla, along the way. All the while, Captain Bugayev and an undercover Spetsnaz team are investigating the fate of their government’s missing submarine. A complication that could light a major fuse on the Cold War.
Meanwhile, Atlantis grows, and its reach is utterly inimical to human life.
Lethbridge-Stewart: Blood of Atlantis (#9) Reviews
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In this book Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , Ann Travers & the team head to the Aegean Sea to investigate strange goings-on, as ever. This time it's a damaged Royal Navy ship & a series of missing vessels.
Candy Jar books chose Simon A Forward well as a writer for this series. He really gets it, making an action story, almost James Bond like, but keeping the sci-fi Doctor Who stuff in the story. This series is about a military man and his colleagues and Forward really sees this.
All of the series' regular cast are well treated here. It can be hard to focus on the Brigadier and keep both Anne Travers & the likes of Bishop & Ware plenty to do. Forward splits them up for much of the story, and like in Doctor Who this is often the best way of showing the characters.
Forward also creates several of his own characters, all of which are great. There's cat lady archeologist Señora Montilla, who is like the Anne Travers of a different field. Then there's Captain Bugayev, a Russian who ally's with Lethbridge-Stewart in the middle of the Cold War. I really liked this whole element to the story, the uneasy friendship between the two sides and the Brig never being sure he can trust the Russians.
The threat is a good one and a little different to what we've seen in this series before. It's can get repetitive having intelligent strong aliens being the antagonist every time and here we get something different.
There's plenty more I could praise about this book too. The bittersweet ending, the chapter titles are based on Doctor Who stories/episodes. I've enjoyed much of this series but none more than this one. -
A slow burn at first that results in a fireball of action in the end. A terrific story. It's James Bond meets Doctor Who. I highly recommend this one.
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This one was a slow burn for 3/4 of it's pages. The last 1/4 though was full throttle. All in all a very enjoyable read. We continued to enjoy the core characters of the series, and were introduced to some new ones as well. I hope these new arrivals pay us a visit in future Lethbridge-Stewart novels. I suspect we will indeed see them again.
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I'm greatly enjoying these set of adventures of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart set just before the arrival of the Third Doctor into his life. Here he is sent off to the Aegean Sea to investigate mysterious threats, with his usual crew of assistants (who all get something to do) and an eccentric archaeologist and a Soviet officer who becomes a reluctant ally, along with a ruthless South African baddie. It fairly cracks along and I enjoyed it. Forward wrote one of the first Doctor Who books I read this century, before the 2005 reboot, and I've liked his work more often than not; this one's certainly in the "more" category. -
After Times Squared, I thought this 3rd series of Lethbridge-Stewart books would struggle to get better. I'm glad to say I was wrong.
Blood of Atlantis continually provokes intrigue and keeps the action going so there are no points where things feel like they are left ticking over to make up the page count. It's also nice to see Samson Ware get his first bit of major action since his introduction in The Showstoppers (something which feels like a long time coming). The chapter titles being based on Doctor Who episodes/stories also comes across as more of a fun reference than mere self-indulgence.
All in all, this is a brilliant read and makes me look forward to the next book in the series. -
Blood of Atlantis hat mir wirklich richtig gut gefallen. Das Buch ist einfach großartig geschrieben, geht jedem Klischee aus dem Weg und erzählt von glaubwürdigen Charakteren. Atlantis, Russen und Umweltaktivisten auf Ölplattformen. Hier hätte man so viel falsch machen können, aber Simon A. Forward umschifft grandios jedes mögliche Klischee und stopft fast jedes Logikloch, noch während die Frage dazu im Kopf auftaucht. Mehr davon bitte!
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Not been the biggest fan of me Forwards previous books, but this was a real page turner. I enjoyed the characters, nice to see Cold War Russians portrayed as intelligent and professional , just with a different political ideology. Highly recommended.
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An outstanding entry into the Lethbridge-Stewart line, it's very much a slow boil to start, and has an early James Bond feel to it. Once things get rolling, the action and the pace do not let up until the satisfactory climax. Thoroughly enjoyed this one, for a more detailed review, see
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Sorry, I enjoyed the story, but I am emphatically not a fan of the sentence fragment "style" of writing. If this hadn't been a Lethbridge-Stewart book I doubt I'd have made it past the first chapter.
