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The classic techno-thriller of superpower espionage from New York Times bestselling master of suspense Stuart Woods!
Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Katherine Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base...a crafty Russian spy-master in command...a carefully planned invasion about to be launched from dark waters.
Her suspicions, however, are dismissed by those higher up; her theory, they say, is too crazy to be true. But to Katherine, it's just crazy enough to succeed--unless she can stop it. If she's right, an attack sub has already penetrated friendly waters. Worse yet, the enemy has penetrated deep into her own life, so deep she can touch him. And in this game, one wrong touch can mean Armageddon.
Average Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Good Espionage Novel From Woods, 2008-05-01
This is Woods' first and only espionage ladden novel (The Short Forever contains some but not this level). It is reminescent of Clancy's Hunt for Red October. Katherine Rule (sans the Lee) comes into information regarding a secret base on the coast of Latvia, where they are planning an attack on the US with new subs. Will Lee makes an appearance. Katherine and he begin there relationship. He also gets caught in the middle of the whole mess. With Woods' usual twists and turns the novel ends with a good ending but leaves some unanswered questions.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Quite a good thriller, 2006-04-12
Another submarine thriller in the same vein as Tom Clancy but pacier and without the ponderous detail. The writing of course makes all the difference. A female protagonist discovers a master plan, a creation of a foreign government, and sets out to foil it. Her only obstacles are her bosses who do not believe the evidence. Woods appears to have researched this throughly.
A vey good read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Shallow but worth a read, 2005-07-10
Mysterious submarines prowl the coast of Sweden, while a young an ambitious Soviet submarine commander receives new orders. A not so young, but even more ambitious Soviet general plans spy-missions from a secret base made to look like any prosperous town in the western world. Meanwhile, Kathryn Rule, a non-nonsense intelligence analyst, sees growing signs of Russian focus in the Baltic...
"Deep Lie" isn't the deepest of the submarine technothrillers that invaded bookshelves in the late 1980's (whether inspired by "Red October" or written earlier but reissued to cash in on the craze), nor is it particularly loaded with the sorts of arcane info that only Clancy was able to divine out of military technology (remember, this was pre-internet.). Yet "Deep" is still shallow fun in the way it develops disparate storylines and ties them together. Definitely a fun if forgettable read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Lighter weight spy novel..., 2004-05-03
...but quite fun to read. Although I am sure most people, including Mr. Woods himself, are tired of this comparison, this book is very Clancy-ish in its Russia vs. U.S. one-upmanship and its submarine and weaponry technological detail work.The story is told from two alternating viewpoints: the first from CIA department head Katherine Rule who thinks she has discovered a plot in which Russia will be invading Sweden. Not one of her superiors believes her and she must go behind their backs to continue investigating this dire possibility. The other viewpoint is that of a Russian submarine commander, moved from his normal naval command to an elite Russian fighting force, the one being trained for the invasion itself.
The storytelling is competent and not as technologically detailed as a Tom Clancy, making the story, in my opinion, flow more smoothly than Clancy's. I had figured out who the mole in the CIA book was long before the end of the book but it held my interest enough to want to find out how & when Katherine would discover it.
All in all, a nice earlier book by Woods and a step above most of his somewhat cookie-cutter mystery thrillers.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Immature and unprofessional fairytale with zero reality., 2003-05-16
25 pages in it became obvious that this book is nothing but poor man's James Bond 007-style fairytale. Author has zero knowledge of Russian social politics and geography. Time line is way way of base! The only reason I finished reading this book is to see how bad it will get towards the end. I read dozens of books about cold war and espionage and I would have to put this in bottom 3. Unless you enjoy unrealistic Star wars type fiction this book is not for you..