Red Tide

Commander T. C. Bogner #1

by R. Karl Largent

After the Soviet Union crumbled, a cadre of top-ranking government officials plotted to overthrow the heirs of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. With the agents in place, the conspirators could restore the fallen empire in just three days.

Aboard a yacht on the peaceful Caribbean water, a secret meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and the former Soviet Union was set to take place. Protected by the most sophisticated technology known to man, they would have had nothing to fear—if one of their own wasn’t a traitor.

In a tangled battle of nerves and wits, Commander T.C. Bogner had to use his high-tech equipment to defeat a ruthless and cunning foe. If he failed, the ultimate machines of war would be unleashed—and plunge the world into nuclear holocaust.

285 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 28, 1992

About the author

R. Karl Largent, a.k.a. Robin Karl or Simon Lawrence, is an author, lecturer, and columnist who teaches writing at Tri-State University. Before launching his writing career, he spent 30 years in industry, the last 17 as VP of Marketing for a Fortune 500 multinational. A former horse show judge and trainer of youth horses, he competed in SCCA road racing events, flew as a weather observer in the USAF, completed a tour of duty in the Arctic and served with the U.S. Weather Bureau.

R. Karl Largent is the author of over 600 columns. He has also authored nearly two dozen novels including the bestselling "Red" series. He has also written six non-fiction books as well as numerous articles for magazines, newspapers and other publications.

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this years ago when I picked it up new.

I recently bought a batch of R. Karl Largent books and am making my way through them. I vaguely remember the beginning of this book but not much else.

The story was pretty good, a post-cold war story about Russian Hard-Liners vs the American Government. It's a bit dated now, but was entertaining enough. I liked the book, but as with my previous read, the ending left a little to be desired. It ended quite quickly and not neatly. The Bogner character is setup as the "only man to get this job done" type. But, near the end, he fails to bring backup nor seemed to even have a plan resulting nearly in his death. I expected the character do something unexpected after the reveal of the mystery "Russian" Illegal in Jamaica. Similar to the ending of The Prometheus Project with it's character Elliot Grant Wages, the character was setup to be a guy who gets things done, but seems to stumble upon success at the end.

This is the third R. Karl Largent book I've read so far and all three started off really well, but I had issues with their endings. This book starts a series with the T. C. Bogner characters, so the ending may be a setup for book #2.