The Steel Albatross - Softcover

Scott Carpenter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671673149 ISBN 13: 9780671673147

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1992

Synopsis

When hard-line Soviet elements build an underwater power plant that can paralyze the U.S. defense systems, scandal-plagued Navy pilot Rick Tallman is given command of the Albatross, an undetectable submarine, in order to destroy the system. Reprint.

About this title

From Library Journal:

In the September 15 Prepub Alert column LJ asked, "Does an astronaut have the write stuff for a technothriller?" The answer is a qualified "yes." One of the orig inal seven U.S. astronauts, Carpenter was also a fighter pilot and a participant in the Navy's underwater SEALAB pro gram. The technology here is both authentic-sounding and startling: an under water "glider" plane; human beings medically altered to breathe fluid through their necks. The plot is rather standard fare, however. While testing the Steel Albatross, a prototype underwater glider, Rick Tallman, hotshot son of a naval astronaut (surprise), stumbles on a top-secret Soviet installation off the coast of California. It seems that right-wing extremists in the USSR plan to knock out the U.S. defense system and precipitate war between the USSR and the United States. Carpenter's book has the elements of a thriller, but it lacks the edge-of-the-seat tension of books like The Hunt for Red October . Publicity and the author's name will bring demand.
- Francine Fialkoff, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Former astronaut Carpenter calls on his extensive undersea experience to create this plausible page-turner about a top-secret American sub and a threat from Soviet military hardliners.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671673149
• ISBN 13: 9780671673147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384