The Last Ship: A Novel
William Brinkley
Nov 2013 · Sold by Penguin
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Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer.
The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?
The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?
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Peter Moore
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July 30, 2021
It's pretty good once you get past the opening chapter, which tends to drag with long passages exalting sailors and the naval service, without advancing the plot. Very good writing, but it can veer into purple prose at times. Lastly, the narrative requires one to suspend belief in a few spots, particularly regarding nuclear fallout and the odds that so few ships would survive. If you can get past all that, however, I'd say it's a unique survival/adventure story that's worth a read.
Caylin Allison
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August 7, 2022
Misogynistic, antisemitic garbage. I tried to get through it out of sheer morbid curiosity but I couldn't, it's an absolutely disgusting book with no redeeming factors. It's not like it was written in the 1800s when those attitudes were common and somewhat more socially accepted, it came out in 1988.
Jeff Creim
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May 19, 2019
The book title should read, Ramblings of a captains undisciplined mind. OMG, The author took a good story line and mucked it up with page after page of Ramboling of every possible contingency. Plot development slow painfully slow. Don't waste your money.
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About the author
William Brinkley graduated from the University of Oklahoma and went on to become a commissioned officer in the US Navy during WWII. He was a reporter for The Washington Post and wrote for Life magazine. He was the bestselling author of The Last Ship, the inspiration for the TNT television series, and Don’t Go Near the Water. He died in 1993.
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