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DEPTH FORCE #3
Bloody Seas
Mass market paperback.
225 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1985
About the author
Irving A. Greenfield
83 books9 followersIrving Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a youthful runaway, a merchant seaman, and a soldier during the Korean War, afer which his writing talent burst into print. His novel, The Ancient of Days, was a best-seller for six weeks and Tagget was made into a film for TV. his work has appeared in a variety of media, but, of all his works, Only the Dead Speak Russian is his masterpiece.
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June 18, 2021
Captain Jack Boxer commands an advanced submarine in a near-future Navy, making love to beautiful women and butting heads with his superiors in between missions.
This book is mostly set between missions, but Irving A. Greenfield’s smooth command of narrative still kept me reading. Although there is a paucity of the kind of action one generally goes to a men’s action novel for, there is still plenty of conflict. I could find no ebooks of this series, so I wasn’t able to start at the beginning, which proved to be a bit of a challenge. The story begins in media res with the crew of the Shark and it’s Russian counterpart Sea Savage parting ways after the climax of the previous story. Greenfield doesn’t introduce any of the characters, forcing us to infer their roles and relationships to each other. He’s not much for characterization, either, nor is he into reminding us who his characters are. It almost reads as if he wrote his submarine epic on a scroll thousands of feet long, then just whacked it up into book-sized lengths. “Give me about 150 feet for volume three!” This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy it. Despite Greenfield’s questionable choice to assign a greater page count to Boxer’s sexual conquests than his military victories, I find myself recalling that there were several more Depth Force books at my local used book store. I’m likely to pick up another random volume to check in on Captain Boxer’s adventures and infer what happened in the gaps after this book.
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This book is mostly set between missions, but Irving A. Greenfield’s smooth command of narrative still kept me reading. Although there is a paucity of the kind of action one generally goes to a men’s action novel for, there is still plenty of conflict. I could find no ebooks of this series, so I wasn’t able to start at the beginning, which proved to be a bit of a challenge. The story begins in media res with the crew of the Shark and it’s Russian counterpart Sea Savage parting ways after the climax of the previous story. Greenfield doesn’t introduce any of the characters, forcing us to infer their roles and relationships to each other. He’s not much for characterization, either, nor is he into reminding us who his characters are. It almost reads as if he wrote his submarine epic on a scroll thousands of feet long, then just whacked it up into book-sized lengths. “Give me about 150 feet for volume three!” This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy it. Despite Greenfield’s questionable choice to assign a greater page count to Boxer’s sexual conquests than his military victories, I find myself recalling that there were several more Depth Force books at my local used book store. I’m likely to pick up another random volume to check in on Captain Boxer’s adventures and infer what happened in the gaps after this book.
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December 27, 2022
Easy read but way under the top
Pretty good series so far but the author rushed through the end of this book,
A sub raking torpedo hits and still functioning? An advanced sub with fires and mishaps every trip
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Sex with every social encounter with half the women getting killed ?
Not sure what the authors experience is withe the military and subs but even tho I get to read these for free am done with this series.
Pretty good series so far but the author rushed through the end of this book,
A sub raking torpedo hits and still functioning? An advanced sub with fires and mishaps every trip
.
Sex with every social encounter with half the women getting killed ?
Not sure what the authors experience is withe the military and subs but even tho I get to read these for free am done with this series.
April 9, 2024
These stories get more intense with every Jack Boxer operation. Just wish he would get his romantic life in order!
August 15, 2024
Great read, great series
Action packed, believable and characters are great.
Entire series seems to be high level reading.
Looking forward to next book.
Action packed, believable and characters are great.
Entire series seems to be high level reading.
Looking forward to next book.
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