The Nautilus Sanction by Simon Hawke

The Nautilus Sanction
by Simon Hawke
Pages: 203
Date: May 11 2015 (originally 1985)
Publisher:
Series: TimeWars (5th in series)

Review
Rating: 3.0 out of 5.0
Read: April 7 to 8 2016

Ah, my 21st Hawke book. 5th in the TimeWars series.

The normal people from the prior books return. Lucas Priest, Andre Cross, Finn Delaney. And, as per the norm, Andre kind of barely has any 'lines', and Lucas is kind of cardboardy. Finn has 'lines' but even he appeared cardboardy this time. Forrester also returns, though to a lesser extent (he also, once again, traveled through time, making me wonder what that whole section in the prior book was about - the one where he went on and on about how his time had passed and now he couldn't travel in time . . . except he did in that book. And in this one). Drakov also returns. He has a meater role this time around.

Jules Verne's the 'name' addition this time, though others of historical note appear, like that Jean Lafitte guy who also was in that Pimpernel Plot book. He being based on the historical guy Lafitte who was a pirate.

This time around the 'book' being used as the basis and/or 'thing to get ideas from' is Verne's [book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|33507]. Captain Nemo doesn't make an appearance, but the Nautilus does. Though the Nautilus is a Soviet ship from 1993 that got stolen by Drakov and renamed the Nautilus - directly based off of 20,000 Leagues under the sea, so . . . um, there's that connection. Like Verne's book, Drakov's out for revenge in his sub. There's even some action among ruins (in 20,000, the ruins are Atlantis, here the 'ruins' are a sunken treasury fleet).

It was an interesting diverting read. Just . . . not something I'd rate as highly as the prior books in the series. Both because of how much stupider the 'time commandos' acted, and the introduction of assholes all over the place (see: mysterious Dr. Darkness, who can teleport, but mostly only as a hologram, and stuff).

Oh, and like prior books, people smoke like smoking's going to be banned tomorrow and they want to go out with a bang. Or something like that. And here I mean every century - those people from the 27th century, and those natives of whatever time periods are visited by the time travellers.

April 8 2016