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Darkside
by P. T. Deutermann (Reader: Dick Hill)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed (2002-12-15)
ISBN: 1590861116
EAN: 9781590861110
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Release Date: 2002-12-15
SKU: 01DB-017-7-1107
Condition: G-
Comments: UNABRIDGED; EX-LIBRARY with typical stickers and markings; 11 audiocassettes in original plastic case; Case shows significant wear- front internal hinge has completely separated, and front cover is held on by laminated label, and top edge has partially shattered from apparent compression. Still opens and closes satisfactorily. Everything appears to be in order; While we cannot test our thousands of hours of media, we guarantee them to play well. Narrated by Dick Hill. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
When a midshipman plunges six stories to his death, the U.S. Naval Academy begins investigating an apparent suicide. But there's a bizarre twist: the young man's body is found wearing undergarments belonging to Midshipman Julie Markham, a senior at the academy.
Julie's father Ev, an Annapolis graduate who is now a professor there, fears his daughter will be blamed by the "Darkside" - the bureaucracy that wants to protect the academy at all costs from scandal. Then there's another death, and the beautiful grounds and impregnable traditions of Annapolis are revealed as the hiding place for a relentless predator who can no longer control an impulse to kill.
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Customer Reviews
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And Extremely good read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-09-07
I can relate to a lot that is in Darkside as I am a US Navy Retired Chief Petty Officer. Granted I never attended the Naval Acadamy but I did walk the grounds several years ago. P.T. Deuterman, also Retired Navy, has a way with words and puts them to great use. I highly recommend this book to all
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Badly flawed
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-03-26
The details about the Academy and Annapolis are interesting. The military side is OK.
The big issue is using "Goths" as uber-evil super criminals. While a few might be somewhere maybe, most Goths are simply kids who like a certain style of music and fashion. The motivation of the two at the Academy make no sense at all. The main criminal in this mystery is so superior in ability and intelligence to everyone else that one wonders why he would take up a career of mainly stupid pranks when he could be the next Sect. of the Navy or Bill Gates.
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Just Fair
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-02-11
This work of fiction starts out with great promise and the reader is rapidly sucked into the story. It is unfortunate that this disappears after the first 100 paqes of this work. The reader is then given a dissertationon procedural intracacies of the Naval Academy and the unique structures that are beneath the School. I felt as if I were reading a travel guide on the History of Annapolis rather than what was supposed to have been a well written thriller. It is unfortunate that the writer carries on this useless drivel for almost 250 pages. The book picks up speed rapidly in the final 75 pages with some very interestig twists being found to exist. It is unfortunate that their is too little that comes about and is far too late. The characters are poorly developed with lttle depth being found to exist. This is fair, at best, and can be quite tedious reading.
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You made the Supt's List, P.T.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-30
This was my first exposure to P.T. Deutermann's work, and it was an enjoyable one. The traits of a good mystery are: an inventive plot, well orchestrated; interesting characters, a strong sense of place in keeping with the story, and a well developed sense of pacing.
Having attended the Naval Academy myself, I can tell you he has the place nailed - I could feel Mother B. around me as I read. There were no Goth Johnnies back then, but Deutermann makes the idea seem in keeping. He's worked a murder into the most unlikely of environments, and he did it most believably. If I have a gripe, it's that he falls prey to the tendency to make cliches of his military and police characters, but that's a minor quibble in such a page-turner. Good job, P.T. This puts you on the Supt's list.
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A good thriller is buried within all that fluff
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-03-31
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
First of all - Darkside, even more than Deutermann's other books, requires a good understanding of Naval and military jargon. Unless you already know what a "reefer" is (no it's not marijuana) and you know what an OOD is, and many other slang terms, you may get lost in this book and give up on it.
And that's unfortunate, because it IS a good book, although it's about twice as long as it really needs to be. The theme is unique and plausible, and the action, once it FINALLY gets moving, is pretty intense.
If you can stick with it, you'll be pleased with this Deutermann book. It just seems like the author said to himself "Well, Tom Clancy can write ridiculously long novels, why can't I"?
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