Tuesday, September 11, 2007
 
Book Report: Seawitch by Alistair MacLean (1977)
Like the other MacLean books I've read this year (Puppet on a Chain and Santorini), this book represents more "modern" MacLean (that is, up to date when he wrote them; in this case, the late 1970s). Unfortunately, like the other modern books, this one is a little thin relative to the action in, say, The Guns of Navarrone or Where Eagles Dare.

This book details two MacLeanesque heroes who help out a rogue oil billionaire whose revolutionary oil platform, parked in the Gulf of Mexico, is under threat from a bad man employed by the traditional oil cartel. Weapons are fired. However, there really aren't any plot twists to keep it going. It reads like a television or movie script.

Still, a bad MacLean book is average suspense, so it's not as though it's a bad book; it's just not the best in the MacLean oeuvre.
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