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| Twelve Seconds to Live |  | Author: Douglas Reeman
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0099414872
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780099414872
Publication Date: May 1, 2003
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The mine is an impartial killer and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. They are brave, lonely men with something to prove - or nothing left to lose - as the gentle whirr of the activated fuse marks possibly the last twelve seconds of their lives.
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Firebrand August 1, 2009
Dunnock (Kent)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the first Douglas Reeman book I've read even though I've been a fan of his books under Alexander Kent for some time. And first off I have to say that I was surprised by how different this book was to the Richard Bolitho novels. Obviously there's about 125 years between the subjects, this book being set during WW2, but the style seemed darker and more sorrowful, less of the gung ho, charge in with all guns blazing attitude. It does have its moments of high drama but the author does write a lot in this book without seeming to say much, its only after several chapters that I realised that he was building a connection between me and the characters, inviting me, slowly but surely to actually care about what happens to them. There are two main male leads, Chris Foley a Royal Navy Lieutenant in command of a small coastal gun boat and Lieutenant Commander David Masters, a one time submariner until a harrowing tragedy leaves him with something to prove and a death wish it seems as an expert in the defusing of land mines and unexploded bombs. Reeman builds up each character slowly almost like a gradual introduction, succeeding in bringing each to life. But the story really begins to take shape and gets a hold when each man is drawn to a woman, one a member of the W.R.N.S who owes her life to the courage of Foley, whilst Masters becomes intrigued and captivated by a mysterious but beautiful stranger who is somehow involved in military matters at a high level. Relationships in the time of war are always a risky undertaking and long before this stories conclusion, it seemed only too obvious as to how things were going to end, but with just 4 pages to go, the author quite brilliantly to my mind, turned the whole story round, I just never saw the the end coming in the way it finally panned out. So all in all a great read, thoroughly absorbing and full of fascinating detail and atmosphere befitting the time, I'll certainly be reading more books by Douglas Reeman.
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