Something's Down There

by Mickey Spillane
Category: "Fiction - Adventure"
Pages:273
Year of Publication:2003
Date Added:06/07/2024
Date Read:06/07/2024
Notes:Mako Hooker is an ex-government agent retired and fishing in the Caribbean. Something—reports make it seem like a sea monster—keeps sinking fishing boats, so the government sends down some more agents and gets Hooker involved. A film crew shows up to film the excitement. One of its owners is a mob boss that Hooker knows from the old days. Another is Judy, a woman Hooker falls for. There's a lot of misdirection—is the "biter" a shark? Left0ver WWII mines? An alien? In a plot that doesn't have anything to do with the biter, the mob guys try to take out Hooker but he kills them first. Then the biter turns out to be an old submarine that floated to the surface.
My Rating: 2

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Review - Something's Down There

This was Spillane's last novel during his lifetime. I have to assume that he lost his skill as a writer as he got old or, perhaps, that he never had any and lost his editor. Ridiculous plot with ridiculous sub-plots, terrible dialogue, awful sentences that made no sense and changed tense and subject mid-stream. The pages and pages devoted to describing the mysterious menage that turned out to be a floating submarine hulk ... Wow. Painfully bad.

Reviewed by Roger on 2024-06-07 20:07:06

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