SCIMITAR SL-2

Hamas terrorists buy cruise missiles from North Korea, load them into a Russian submarine, and shoot four of them into Mt. St. Helens, causing a volcanic eruption. Then they threaten the U.S. government with a similar strike in the Canary Islands to create an Atlantic tsunami. The imaginative reader, Eric Steele, supplies an ample array of voices for the multinational cast of characters as he improves a slow thriller with his entertaining interpretation. He switches so deftly between his accents and roles that he nearly makes the performance sound like that of a full cast. The romance seems a little thin, but the complex story hardly needs it. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 05/ JAN 06]