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Project Daedalus
(Bantam Books 1991)
Publisher?s Weekly
?Hoover?s characters double-deal their way through settings ranging from the Acropolis to the inside of a superplane that skims the edge of space ?- the ultimate in death-dealing. A secret agreement between the Russian military and the Yakuza, Japanese crime lords, threatens to shift the balance of world power.?
Idea Hypersonic, Nuclear Warhead, Space Plane, Crete, Palace of Minos, Greek Islands
Publisher?s Weekly
?Hoover?s characters double-deal their way through settings ranging from the Acropolis to the inside of a superplane that skims the edge of space ?- the ultimate in death-dealing. A secret agreement between the Russian military and the Yakuza, Japanese crime lords, threatens to shift the balance of world power.?
Idea Hypersonic, Nuclear Warhead, Space Plane, Crete, Palace of Minos, Greek Islands
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1991
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About the author
Thomas Hoover
31 books23 followersThomas Hoover has a doctorate in oceanography and served as senior vice president of an architect-engineering firm in New York, where he has lived for several decades. His vices include being an avid sailor and a recognized collector of the classical music of India. He began his writing career with two classic non-fiction books on Far Eastern art and religion and then moved into fiction writing with two critically acclaimed novels about English sailors in the early Seventeenth century.
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June 5, 2011
Technothriller from the end of the cold war. Probably a bit too techno for my liking - too much detail about fuel systems and radar evasion systems which I can't get very excited by. But the plot was good with a neat ending.
April 15, 2012
Not sure if it's me or the book but every time I try to read it I get really sleepy. Although the last third of it seems to be getting better or I'm at least not as sleepy when reading it.
July 16, 2019
Project Daedalus Review
Good book well written just like another one of his novels would recommend and will be keeping my eye out for more by this author.
Good book well written just like another one of his novels would recommend and will be keeping my eye out for more by this author.
May 20, 2022
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I was unable to follow this,
It’s a real P O S.
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I was unable to follow this,
It’s a real P O S.
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April 17, 2013
What happens when the new Soviet government that has the engineers to develop a hypersonic airplane secretly gets in bed with the Japanese mafia who have the technology to create said airplane? Something that members of the CIA, NSA, and KGB are very determined to figure out and put a stop to. Add into the mix a rogue Russian test pilot, a freelance money launderer, and several double deals and you have one heck of an intriguing plot.
While the storyline is riveting, I must admit that it was very hard for me to read. The technology of Mach speeds, hypersonic, scramjets, and an assortment of military planes was admittedly way over my head and I had a hard time making much sense of these segments. There is also the fact that there are characters of many different countries that speak in their native tongue. This lends a nice atmosphere of reality to the characters but as not many general readers speak Russian, Greek, or Japanese a bit of translation would have been nice. I couldn't help but feel that I was missing out on quite a bit of the dialogue. Then again, who knows, maybe it was just the foreign version of "Hey, how's the family?" and wasn't really pertinent to the plot after all, but I kind of doubt it.
All in all, this was an excellent hard to put down page turner that I would be willing to read again. I get the feeling there are many layers to the plot that would benefit from a second or even third read.
While the storyline is riveting, I must admit that it was very hard for me to read. The technology of Mach speeds, hypersonic, scramjets, and an assortment of military planes was admittedly way over my head and I had a hard time making much sense of these segments. There is also the fact that there are characters of many different countries that speak in their native tongue. This lends a nice atmosphere of reality to the characters but as not many general readers speak Russian, Greek, or Japanese a bit of translation would have been nice. I couldn't help but feel that I was missing out on quite a bit of the dialogue. Then again, who knows, maybe it was just the foreign version of "Hey, how's the family?" and wasn't really pertinent to the plot after all, but I kind of doubt it.
All in all, this was an excellent hard to put down page turner that I would be willing to read again. I get the feeling there are many layers to the plot that would benefit from a second or even third read.
April 1, 2014
This is the second novel by Thomas Hoover that I have read. I thought that Syndrome was great and while this is not perhaps great in is a good solid and very entertaining read for which I was able to easily suspend belief and just enjoy.
The plot moves at a reasonably fast pace around the world but not so fast that the reader might lose track of events; the bad guys are bad and the good guys are good, and I would liken it to a literary version of one of the better 007 movies e.g. Thunderball or The Spy Who Loved me.
I thought the end was a little weak after such a strong chase but then again, I'm not sure just how I would have ended it differently without resorting to killing everyone off...
Recommended for a wet weekend or a long flight, and I am looking forward to my next foray into a Thomas Hoover novel...
The plot moves at a reasonably fast pace around the world but not so fast that the reader might lose track of events; the bad guys are bad and the good guys are good, and I would liken it to a literary version of one of the better 007 movies e.g. Thunderball or The Spy Who Loved me.
I thought the end was a little weak after such a strong chase but then again, I'm not sure just how I would have ended it differently without resorting to killing everyone off...
Recommended for a wet weekend or a long flight, and I am looking forward to my next foray into a Thomas Hoover novel...
July 20, 2011
What James Bond wants to be like when he grows up... This guy is just too much...
March 24, 2012
Eerily realistic plot......
May 30, 2012
Good book
April 23, 2013
Ok, but nothing great. Usual sci-fi type theme of a plane which can go into orbit around the Earth. The end seemed a bit far-fetched !
August 5, 2011
very good
should have been a little shorter
should have been a little shorter
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