Sea Hawke
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3.6 • 278 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Alex Hawke is sailing into trouble when an around-the-world journey becomes a fight against terror in the latest exciting adventure from New York Times bestselling novelist Ted Bell.
After saving the kidnapped heir to the British throne, gentleman spy and MI6 legend Alex Hawke is due for some downtime. He’s got a new custom built sailing yacht and a goal: to get closer to his son Alexi during an epic cruise across the seven seas.
But fate and the chief of MI6, Lord David Trulove, have other plans.
There’s an unholy alliance of nations who are plotting to attack Western democracies. The wily intelligence leader plans to use Hawke to drive a knife into the heart of this conspiracy. From an island base off Cuba to a secret jungle lair deep in the Amazon, on the land and the seas, the master spy and his crew of incorrigibles are in for the fight of their lives—the fight for freedom.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Bell sets a new personal record for audacious silliness in his 12th thriller featuring MI6 superagent Alex Hawke (after 2020's Dragon Fire). Hawke's plans for a little downtime with his eight-year-old son get derailed when his boss, Lord David Trulove, dispatches him to Cuba to wreak havoc on a newly formed alliance of "all the Communist and socialist nations on earth," which are plotting an attack on the West. Soon, the ageless hero is fighting sharks with his bare hands, organizing prison breaks, and sinking a troopship full of ISIS fighters, as well as a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine. Hawke does most of the damage from the deck of his armored yacht, which is equipped with a special laser-beam weapon designed by Tesla founder Elon Musk. Then, it's down to the Amazon, where Hawke targets a huge enemy encampment deep upriver. While Hawke has a certain swashbuckling appeal, the action reaches absurd heights, and the writing, particularly in the fighting sequences, is choppy and repetitive. Even Bell's fans may feel he phoned this one in.
Customer Reviews
Missed expectations
I’m so very sorry to have waited with such high anticipation of a fantastic book instead to find a tale of many disconnected adventures that were difficult to get thru. I’m a big fan of all the other books just this one not so much.
Terrible
Don’t bother. Really bad. So bad I almost couldn’t finish. Read three of four books in the midst and was so bored that I finished it. That will be the last of his books I read.
He’s hung on too long!
He mailed this one in! Not nearly as good as prior works. Unnecessarily pompous, often disjointed, unimaginative battle sequences and remarkable in its jumpiness angle lack of any real suspense or build up.