Haven't read much of Dimercurio (sorry if I'm getting the spelling wrong). The last I read was "Barracuda: Final Bearing" which I thought was promising but ultimately lame. "Phoenix Sub Zero" was much better, but in "Barracuda" you spend like half the book just getting to the point where the action is going to start, and then the story just glances at the action. (WARNING SPOILER!!) A character wakes up on a hospital ship and just hears that a big part of the surface fleet has just been destroyed. There aren't any prolonged action sequences - ships detect their targets and sink them; targets may detect torpedoes on the way and either evade them or (more often) get sunk. I remember more coherent and prolonged plotting in "Phoenix". Are there any Dimercurio fans who can describe how well Barracuda typifies his other books?
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