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| View Larger Image | Goliath
by Steve Alten
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 123844 | | Studio: | Forge Books | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 512 | | Publication Date: | July 13, 2003 | | Publisher: | Forge Books |
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Product Description
Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now commands.
A U.S. Navy-designed futuristic nuclear stealth submarine the length of a football field in the shape of a giant stingray. Simon Covah, a brilliant scientist whose entire family were the victims of terrorism has hijacked the sub. Believing violence is a disease, Covah aims to use the Goliath and its cache of nuclear weapons to dictate policy to the world regarding the removal of oppressive regimes and nuclear weapons.
Could the threat of violence forge a lasting peace?
But there is another player in this life-and-death chess match. Unbeknownst to Covah and the Goliath crews, Sorceress, the Goliath's biochemical computer brain has become self-aware.
And that computer brain is developing its own agenda.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 59 reviews)
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Good story, but technical errors distracting... 
I have read nearly all of Steve Alten's books, and have enjoyed them, but this one heads in a direction that I'm fairly well-informed about, weapons and the technology surrounding them, so I found the little technical errors distracted me from the story. Firstly, Goliath is supposed to be a supremely quiet, stealthy submarine, but the external details of the body of the sub as they are described would have made for anything but. The description of the missile tubes in a saw-tooth or stepped arrangement down the back of the submarine would have produced an incredible amount of flow noise, especially at the high speeds that the sub is supposedly capable of. And I always find firearms errors distracting as well -- like a revolver that has its clip emptied at a target. Revolvers have cylinders, semi-autos have magazines, and clips are used to load the fixed magazine in a rifle. The three blurbs on the cover of the paperback all mention Tom Clancy, but Tom Clancy doesn't make those kinds of errors.
That being said, I enjoyed the storyline, and will read the followup novel, "Sorceress."
April 04, 2008 | |
Another Awesome Book! Hard to put down! 
Again, this is a VERY GOOD book. The author Steve Alten is intense and has an excellent writing ability! VERY WELL WORTH THE MONEY
April 01, 2008 | |
AWESOME
This is one of my favorite Alten books out there and actually in my top 10 all time. Very good action with great suspense and really good characters. Alten says he plans on writing a sequel and I can't wait for that to happen.
March 04, 2008 | |
I keep being impressed...
...by this guy! Few people have the talent to keep the interest of thier readers like Steve Alten. I got hooked with 'The Loch' and haven't let us since. Hit a slight bump with 'Domain' but 98% of this guys work is simply amazing! It's almost like he writes and could give a flip about what happens to his characters and I LOVE that.
It seems that he's just a vessle in which the story is told and the story will be told... damn what happens to who! You've gotta love that!!! I thought 'Goliath' was the name of a ship from his 'Meg' novels but I could be wrong. Anyway... I won't say too much about this book since it's been out for five years or so except that this is DEFINATELY one you want to read! Period!
February 28, 2008 | |
Terrible!! 
Other's have already posted plot summaries so I will skip that. The plot is not too far off target, but the characters are wooden and flat. Thrust into a life threatening situation, former lovers Rocky and Gunnar are allegedly working together to stop terrorists on board Goliath. Unfortunately, Rocky spends her time berating Gunnar for a past offense and preaching the American Way. Meanwhile, Gunnar is too wrapped up in the past, albeit violent and scarring, to appeal to this reader as a wounded hero. She is blinded by patriotism and he is burned out, struggling to get thru the day. The villian, Covah, is written sanctamonious rather than menacing.
I've read Alten's other books and this one was boring boring boring.
August 26, 2007 | |
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