Publisher's Weekly
Terman's fourth high-tech suspense novel is a roller-coaster ride that begins in a North Vietnamese prison camp in 1969 and ends sometime in the near future in the Caribbean. Brought together by a plot to sabotage both SDI and the U.S. space program, an ex-Air Force captain and a KGB agent join forces. ``Although Terman's characters are motivated more by the plot's immediate demands than by coherent structures of values and emotions, the action scenes are first-rate,'' observed PW.

Library Journal
Terman has given us a rip-roaring sea-going chase-and-destroy thriller with curiously dark and savage undertones. Bracken, an Air Force pilot broken by torture in Vietnam, resigns from the military, then fails in marriage and business. Skippering the lovely old schooner Pampero out of Antigua with his mate, Walrus, he accepts a dubious charter. When it turns out his Florida destination is not Miami but Cape Kennedy, Bracken is plunged into a monstrous espionage scheme which could change the path of history. Once again Bracken confronts Lu, alias Aleksandrovich Rogov, his former KGB interrogator, who has planned Pampero 's deadly mission. The plot is wonderfully convoluted, the settings romantic, the action dramatic, the violence graphic. Terman is the author of several well-received thrillers, including The First Strike ( LJ 11/15/79), Free Flight ( LJ 8/80), and Shell Game ( LJ 2/15/85).-- Elsa Pendleton, M.L.S., Computer Sciences Corp., Ridgecrest, Cal.