Patrick Robinson
Patrick Robinson is the author of seven international bestselling suspense thrillers, including Nimitz Class and Hunter Killer, as well as several nonfiction bestsellers. He divides his time between Ireland and Cape Cod.
All Books By Patrick Robinson
Diamondhead
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Charles Leggett
- Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.94(909 ratings)
When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford’s fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche. Mack suspects that Foche will succeed in his campaign to become the next French President, and fears that his election will result in the cancellation of all navy-ship purchases from the United States, and in doing so, will also protect French interests in the Diamondhead. End result: doom for Mack’s hometown shipbuilding yard and the spread of international terrorism.
... Read moreGhost Force
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Erik Steele
- Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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4.04(935 ratings)
Moscow and Argentina form a devastating secret alliance to control the territory–and the oil rights–of the Falkland Islands. The United States is furious at this act of international piracy–and the fact that their largest oil giant owns those same rights. Under the stern eye of Admiral Morgan, the Navy SEALs bring in legendary Commander Rick Hunter. Their mission is to hammer Argentina’s military and free the Falklands. For the fabled Hunter, the assignment strikes close to home. His English brother-in-law and an SAS special forces team are trapped on East Falkland, running from an Argentinean shoot-to-kill manhunt.
... Read moreH.M.S. Unseen
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 26, 2016
- Language: English
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4.04(2197 ratings)
The H.M.S. Unseen is one of the most efficient, lethal submarines ever built. But suddenly, on a training mission off the English coast, it vanishes, baffling military intelligence on both sides of the Atlantic, including National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. A missing weapon is dangerous enough. But then the unthinkable begins to happen… Planes begin blowing up across the skies.
Searching for answers, Morgan is convinced that only one man can be behind all these devastating events: his archenemy, the world’s most cunning–yet reportedly dead–terrorist spy. Determined to stop his old nemesis, Morgan must use all his wits to find a madman armed with a powerful sub hidden somewhere in a million square miles of ocean. What Morgan doesn’t know, however, is that the fanatical terrorist has a plan of his own, one that will bring these two intense warriors face-to-face–and only one will come out alive in one of the most chilling spy stories of the year.
... Read moreHMS Unseen
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: David McCallum
- Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 23, 2004
- Language: English
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4.04(2197 ratings)
The most highly efficient and lethal underwater ship ever built, H.M.S. Unseen, vanishes into the depths while on a training mission, baffling British and American military intelligence including wily National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan.
One year later, the Concorde, the world’s safest and most secure domestic plane, disappears without a trace over the North Atlantic. Days later the brand new Starstriker jet vanishes. Both appear to be random inexplicable accidents until Air Force Three, carrying the vice-president of the United States, is blown from the sky.
Morgan devises a chilling theory. Not only is Unseen still out there, but it’s been modified to become the most dangerous anti-aircraft weapon at sea. And the admiral is convinced that only one man could have masterminded it: The world’s most cunning’and reportedly dead’terrorist spy, Iraq’s Commander Benjamin Adnam. But what Morgan doesn’t know is that the fanatically religious military terrorist has a chilling agenda of his own’a plan that will bring these two intense warriors face to face. . . and only one will come out alive.
Performed by David McCallum on four cassettes.
... Read moreHonor and Betrayal
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.91(273 ratings)
From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor comes the riveting behind-the-scenes story of the three Navy SEALs who captured the “Butcher of Fallujah” and, having been charged with prisoner abuse, their long road to justice.
On a daring nighttime raid in September 2009, a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the notorious terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed, the villainous “Butcher of Fallujah,” the mastermind behind the 2004 murder and mutilation of four American contractors. In this no-holds-barred account, bestselling author Patrick Robinson reveals for the first time the entire story, from the night the SEALs stormed the al-Qaeda desert stronghold to the accusations and legal twists and turns that followed to the cut-and-thrust drama in the courtroom where the fate of three American heroes hung in the balance.
... Read moreIntercept
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Charles Leggett
- Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.96(710 ratings)
A left-leaning judge liberates four of the most dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay and the CIA field officers track them back to Pakistan’s northwest frontier mountain range. But the men vanish and rejoin the dark and mysterious forces trained by Osama bin Laden high in the Hindu Kush. These are men with hatred for the United States and Great Britain, and they have sworn to hit back at America, which imprisoned so many of their high command.
A fateful communication from the mountains of the Afghan side of the border is intercepted by Britain’s secret surveillance station on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Al-Qaeda is almost certainly planning a new hit on the US mainland. The CIA is at its wits end, all their fears coming home to roost.
They know there is only one man who can stop the terrorists–retired Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mack Bedford–and he is called in to assist on one of the most highly classified missions ever launched from CIA headquarters. Bedford names his price, and once more, the nobility of the man is spun into a breathtakingly fast action novel.
... Read moreKilo Class
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Stephen Lang
- Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 23, 2004
- Language: English
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4.08(1876 ratings)
It’s one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built . . . silent at under five knots, and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch. It’s the weapon every Third World dictator covets. It’s the 240-foot long Russian Kilo Class submarine and Russia seems perfectly willing to sell it to anyone – including China.
The U.S. Defense Department knows full well of China’s intentions to use submarines to shut the U.S. Carrier Battle Groups out of the Taiwan Strait. And then to reclaim, by military force if necessary, the rich independent island which sits only one hundred miles off her eastern coastline. A strike force of patrolling Kilos could achieve that objective for Beijing. Two of the 10 Kilos have already been delivered.
The President’s new National Security Adviser, the irascible Texan Admiral Arnold Morgan, prepares to send the U.S. Navy’s most deadly Black Ops hit-squads deep into dark Russian waters. Their mission – to foil delivery of the other eight Kilos – is undertaken under the most crushing code of secrecy. One mistake could literally start World War III. As Moscow brings in an iron cordon of an escort for the submarine deliveries, Commander Boomer Dunning, the Black Ops Captain, races his 7,000-ton nuclear boat beneath the polar ice-cap to head them off.
Kilo Class is a taut techno-thriller of the highest quality, grounded in fact, and ringing with unmistakable authenticity. It is the story of a breathtaking race against time. Peppered with unforgettable characters, it takes the listener into the heart of the control room of a hunter-killer submarine.
Performed by Stephen Lang.
... Read moreKilo Class
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 26, 2016
- Language: English
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4.08(1876 ratings)
It’s one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built–and it’s about to set off World War III.
Silent at less than five knots and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch, it’s the 240-foot Russian Kilo Class submarine. Strapped for hard cash, the Russians have produced ten new Kilos for Beijing. The Chinese have already received three of the subs and now the last seven are ready to be delivered–a code-red situation the Pentagon must avert. Armed with a full strike force of Kilos, China can cripple American interests, shatter the balance of power, and successfully achieve the unthinkable in the Pacific Rim. But not if the newly appointed National Security Adviser, wily Texas admiral Arnold Morgan, can stop them–using the navy’s deadliest covert forces.
In a breathtaking race against time, a team of Navy SEALs penetrates deep inside the remote waters of northern Russia on a daring mission of destruction. And in the icy darkness of the North Atlantic, a brave U.S. captain takes his 7,000-ton nuclear vessel on a hair-raising trip beneath the polar ice cap to head off a powerful Russian cordon determined to transport the Kilos at any cost. Horns locked in a tense game of geomilitary survival, each of the world’s three most powerful nations knows that one mistake will mean all-out war.
... Read moreNimitz Class
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Jay O. Sanders
- Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 23, 2004
- Language: English
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3.94(5664 ratings)
It’s as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. It’s a Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it.
So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with disbelief. But the truth becomes inescapable: a Nimitz-class carrier has been claimed by nuclear catastrophe-no other explanation is possible.
But as Navy maverick Bill Baldridge begins to investigate the disaster that claimed his idolized brother’s life, another chilling alternative begins to emerge: a rogue submarine. Suddenly it’s up to Bill Baldridge to track down this shadowy nuclear terrorist, who still has another nuclear-tipped torpedo in his arsenal.
... Read more“An absolutely marvelous thriller, one of the best things of its kind I have read in years. I don’t need to urge people to read it, because they will do so by the millions.”
— Jack Higgins
Nimitz Class
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 26, 2016
- Language: English
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3.94(5664 ratings)
It’s as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles–in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It’s a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it.
So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with disbelief. But as her battered escorts report in, the truth becomes inescapable: a Nimitz-Class carrier has been claimed by nuclear catastrophe–the mightiest military unit on earth, vaporized without warning by an accidental detonation of unimaginable power. No other explanation is possible.
But as Navy maverick Bill Baldridge begins to investigate the disaster that claimed his idolized brother’s life, another chilling alternative begins to emerge from the high-tech web of fleeting sonar contacts and elusive radar blips. It points to a rogue submarine commanded by a world-class undersea warrior with the steely nerve and cunning of a master spy. Suddenly it’s up to Bill Baldridge to track down this shadowy nuclear terrorist, who has already turned America’s ultimate weapon into the biggest sitting duck in history–and who still has another nuclear-tipped torpedo in his tubes. He’s already proved he has the icy ruthlessness to incinerate six thousand sailors without a qualm. What will he do for an encore?
In these pages the modern military springs to life, form the Pentagon’s tense conferences to the screaming flight deck of a giant carrier to the silent conning tower of an attack sub on full alert. But as Bill Baldridge races against time to pursue the nation’s most deadly enemy, we are forced to ask ourselves serious real-life questions: Have defense budget cuts jeopardized our national security? Are we prepared to defend ourselves against naval terrorist? How safe are we? Nimitz Class is a world-class techno-thriller with a plot as riveting as Hunt for Red October–and an explosive twist out of tomorrow’s headlines.
Today it’s a novel. Tomorrow it might be the news.
... Read morePower Play
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.94(374 ratings)
The year is 2018–a highly volatile nuclear world. Israel has obliterated the deep underground nuclear weapons facility built by Iran. The United States has destroyed the nuclear facility of a defiant North Korea. The Russians have upped the stakes in the latest world power-play–cyber warfare–to reduce the United States to helplessness: a three-strike missile attack on the National Security Agency at Fort Mead, Maryland, while simultaneously jamming the top-secret electronic access key to America’s nuclear launch system–the nuclear football. If successful, Russia would blow the United States off the nuclear map. Meanwhile the British Royal Navy, formerly the most powerful in the world, is rapidly crumbling, leaving the United States without its main deep sea ally at a time when they’re needed most. As this geopolitical battle comes to light behind close doors dealings and dark secrets, it is up to a Mossad spymaster, codenamed The Golan, to avert the Russian scheme, and there is only one man he in turn can trust to get the job done: US Navy Seal Mack Bedford. It’s up to Mack Bedford to devise a plan to stop the Russians before they and their cyber weaponry reach the launch site near the Chinese border. And with the entire country’s fate in his hands, Mack and his hard-trained, one-of-a-kind SEAL Team 10 must not, cannot fail.
... Read moreShark Mutiny
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: David McCallum
- Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 23, 2004
- Language: English
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4(1719 ratings)
It is the year 2007, and the Chinese are poised to challenge America’s superiority on the open sea and upset the delicate balance of oil power in the Middle East and the free passage of the world’s giant tankers.
The Chinese Navy, in partnership with Iran, has laid a minefield clean across the Strait of Hormuz, holding the world’s oil supply hostage. Mystified by China’s motive, yet drawn to action, the United States moves to disarm the mines with a huge display of force. At the center of the mission is USS Shark, a 30-year-old nuclear boat on her final tour of duty. When confronted with the unexpected death of brave SEALs, the unimaginable happens: the first mutiny in the modern history of the United States Navy.
... Read moreThe Delta Solution
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.93(654 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson is back with the third thriller in his page-turning Mack Bedford series: The Delta Solution.
For years, heavily armed Somali pirates have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. Each time an owner pays big for the return of their ship, the pirates immediately capture again, enraging the Pentagon. That is, until the “Somali Marines” make a big mistake, seizing at gunpoint two United States ships and demanding a $15 million ransom.
Hero Mack Bedford, previously encountered in Diamondhead and Intercept, is deployed to SEAL Team 10 to form the Delta Platoon. His objective: obliterate the Somali Marines in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all.
... Read moreThe Lion of Sabray
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.29(155 ratings)
Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor and “preeminent writer of modern naval fiction” (The Florida Times Union) shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Afghani warrior who defied the Taliban and saved the life of American hero and Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.
Bestselling author Patrick Robinson helped Marcus Luttrell bring his harrowing story of survival to the page and the big screen with Lone Survivor. But the Afghani man who saved his life was always shrouded in mystery. Now, with The Lion of Sabray, Robinson reveals the amazing backstory of Mohammed Gulab–the brave man who forever changed the course of life for his Afghani family, his village, and himself when he discovered Luttrell badly injured and barely conscious on a mountainside in the Hindu Kush just hours after the firefight that killed the rest of Luttrell’s team.
Operating under the 2,000-year-old principles of Pashtunwali–the tribal honor code that guided his life–Gulab refused to turn Luttrell over to the Taliban forces that were hunting him, believing it was his obligation to protect and care for the American soldier. Because Gulab was a celebrated Mujahedeen field commander and machine-gunner who beat back the Soviets as a teenager, the Taliban were wary enough that they didn’t simply storm the village and take Luttrell, which gave Gulab time to orchestrate his rescue.
In addition to Gulab’s brave story, The Lion of Sabray cinematically reveals previously unknown details of Luttrell’s rescue by American forces–which were only recently declassified–and sheds light on the ramifications for Gulab, his family, and his community. Going beyond both the book and the movie versions of Lone Survivor, The Lion of Sabray is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the brave man who helped the Lone Survivor make it home.
The Shark Mutiny
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 15 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 16, 2016
- Language: English
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4(1326 ratings)
The epic and electrifying new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of U.S.S. Seawolf And Nimitz Class
An oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second . . . and a third.?To the President’s National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a tragic coincidence–it is a brazen act of aggression that must not stand. In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy has mined the Strait of Hormuz, intending to hold the world’s oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America’s active sea power is being mobilized–including U.S.S. Shark, an aging nuclear submarine on its final tour of duty–to dismantle a deadly alliance between two powerful enemies. But something goes terribly wrong during a bold retaliatory?SEAL?assault on China’s Indian Ocean power plants–a disaster that spawns death, disbelief, rage . . . and rebellion. And with a volatile world on the brink of catastrophic conflict, the commanders of a nuclear boat in the twilight of glory must confront a nightmare as devastating as it is unthinkable: mutiny!
... Read moreTo the Death
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: Erik Steele
- Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.96(855 ratings)
A bomb explodes in Boston’s Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, the most trusted adviser to President Bedford, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible for the bloodshed. The Hamas high command hatches a vicious plan to assassinate him once he exits the United States. Leading this attack is chief Hamas assassin General Ravi Rashood. Meanwhile, President Bedford, in a desperate attempt to protect the admiral at all costs, summons the most advanced and dangerous Navy Seal team the United States has to offer. And so begins an exhilarating chase that goes beyond the borders of the United States, taking the reader on a terrifying journey through southern Ireland, London, and Scotland.
... Read moreU.S.S. Seawolf
- By: Patrick Robinson
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 16, 2016
- Language: English
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4.01(1695 ratings)
Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III–a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city.
National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can’t let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. But then the unthinkable happens: Seawolf, collides with a Chinese destroyer and falls into enemy hands. A team of cunning Navy SEALs–the biggest Special Forces assault group assembled since Vietnam–is sent in to free the captive Seawolf, crew and bring them home. The American Eagle confronts the Chinese Dragon with the balance of world power on the line. Failure is not an option…
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