I'm stumped with this review. I'm a bit torn actually. I loved the first 50% of the story, then it got bumpy. I was hoping for something along the lines of Joe Ledger, but The Event Group was fairly ineffective. Besides the fact that some of the storyline was ridiculous, with tentacled/scaled/underwater pirates riding sea turtles, "that was easier to believe than the same pirates riding flying manta rays." I'd have bought it had there been some science behind it, even cheesy science would have worked." But no. Next thing you know I'm singing the sponge bob squarepants theme song! That's where the author lost me. Also, the wording was often off. I'd have to go back and read to figure out what was meant. I don't know if this was the author or editing. Probably both. I think that the worst thing for me was the ending. So many dead, and nothing was changed. Pointless really. I won't be reading the next in the series, or any of the previous books either. My thanks to Thomas Dunne/Macmillan and Netgalley for this e-arc.

A Soviet era battle ship reported sunk in 1944, all its crew dead has been spotted in 2017 by an American submarine, sailing the ocean. With rhetoric and sabre rattling between the U.S. and Russia, the U.S. Navy declare the derelict ship salvage under international law before the Russians can arrive on scene. The president calls on the Event Group to figure out why the supposedly sunken ship has reappeared. Soon they are facing off with the Russian Navy, whose officers make it clear they want their property back. But that’s nothing compared to what both groups will face when they realize why the Simbirsk is still afloat, why it appears to be in good as new operation. Golemon provides readers with an exciting, heart pumping read and a welcome distraction from all the frightening things happening in Washington – for real