DEEP IS THE BLUE

by Max Ehrlich ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 3, 1964

Matt Donovan, a nuclear sub commander in the Gable-Peck-Wayne epic style, is a martinet megalomaniac whose every offbeat order can be justified by the book. His job is to take the bomb-spined William F. Cody into a patrol area for sixty days and bring the men back safely. However huge, handsome and widely decorated Matt has bugs in his reactor, including a fanatical interest in his officers' private lives. He also wants to blow up a Russian sub under the ice cap off Siberia, which later turns out to have been British. And again he decides to send the Cody into deep dive just over the spot where the Thresher went down. As the Cody sinks deeper and deeper toward the Thresher's grave, there is the everpresent ghost of the horror every submariner knows to be exercised... A masculine toned action adventure, the seamen and officers are precast from the fiction factory, but the pages have an occasional flashy gloss.

Pub Date: July 3, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1964

Categories: FICTION