The Delta Solution

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

The Delta Solution is an action-packed novel pitting Navy SEAL Mack Bedford (from Diamondhead and Intercept) against the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. When the "Somali Marines" make a big mistake, seizing at gunpoint two United States ships and demanding a $15 million ransom for their return, hero Mack Bedford is deployed to obliterate them in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all.

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Sophomoric at best.

Take away the cursing and you’d have a nice little children’s fable. Like a sitcom from the 70s.

Delta

Told the whole story from both side beginning to end.
Enjoyed how it was told and the Storyline was very well executed by the narrator

A Great Look Inside Military Operations

Patrick Robinson does an excellent job of taking us behind the scenes and into the workings of a special ops mission. Although fiction, there's enough fact to keep the story believable. Fast-paced action that has you riveted. Hooyah for the Navy SEALs!

The Delta Solution has a very good story line.

Mac is back and the storyline was very good and had a great climax. Sorry to say that the performance was less than stellar.

Worst seal book I've read

I agree with other reviewers in their disappointment with this book. I have read just about every seal book available and am usually riveted. The author seemed to need to tell me how impressed I should be, again and again. There was very little story or action. Lots of unnecessary verbiage and honking of seal horns. Our special forces are so exceptional that you don't need to tell me how exceptional they are. Just tell the story, the awe is in understating their feats. Thanks to our military at every level. You can all spend your credit on most anything, it would be better than this thing. 3 stars because of the tiny insight into piracy.

need to go back to the old narrator.

the other guy was better at doing Matt Bedford. plus the story line is getting thin and worn out.

Don't Listen to Delta Solution!

Do not play this audiobook! If you start, you will not be able to stop until it is finished, and your work schedule will be wrecked. Further, the story is too tense to allow other work (such as tax return preparation or antenna design) to be done while listening.

Factual mistakes are distracting

I’ve now listened to all four of this series and am seriously disappointed due to numerous and repeated errors either in terminology or facts. If these books had not been free, I wouldn’t have bought them because of the authors lack of credibility.
Starting with everyone carrying “high caliber revolvers” and changing their magazines in book one. To calling the Russian PKM a 6.72mm heavy machine gun repeatedly, then referring to M4 carbines as machine guns throughout the next books.
Not remembering the promotion and demoting Mack back to Lt Commander and in 4 to Captain… not even keeping his main character straight doesn’t help the story.
If I hadn’t just needed something to distract me during long hours on the road, these books would have been a waste of time.
I’ll likely avoid this author in the future.

excellent story in excellent production

this is one of Patrick Robinson's best books the story involves enough detail and action to keep any listener interested

Too Many Mistakes

I enjoyed this book. It's kind of a feel-good book if you are a conservative American patriot. Nevertheless, I just couldn't give it five stars because the author made too many factual mistakes that would have been so easy to avoid. I have heard others complain about this as well and I really had not been paying attention until now. Here are just a few:
1) The author describes an aircraft carrier as a 100,000-foot carrier! Even at JFK International Airport in New York City the longest runway is only about 12,000 feet. I'm not entirely sure but he could have been referring to the fact that a Nimitz class carrier has a displacement of roughly 100,000 tons. (It is frequently written as 100,000t, kinda looks like 100,000 ft I guess-Maybe the narrator just screwed up?)
2) The previous book in this series was describing a new type of ballistic missile that was designed to fly low to the ground and stealthy. This is obviously a contradiction in terms. A ballistic missile follows...well...a ballistic trajectory. By definition, a ballistic trajectory is not low to the ground. It goes up and then comes down. A cruise missile, however...
3) The author talks about "seal team 10" being deployed and then in the very next sentence calls them "seal team 6". I guess seal team six is just too famous and he forgot which team he was talking about.
4) The author continually talks about people using cell phones out in the middle of the ocean. Where exactly are the cell towers supposed to be, considering that the maximum range of a cell phone transceiver is only about 45 miles under perfect conditions? We're not talking about cruise ships where there might be a cellular link to a satellite but on small fishing boats. Sorry, when you are 600 miles out to sea, there is no cellular service. If you are talking about a satellite phone, then call it a sat-phone, not a cell phone.
5) Although a Lockheed P3 Orion is capable of cruising at 400 kn, the author said it was flying at 400 kn per hour. That's not even a thing! That's like saying miles per hour per hour. That could be a measurement of acceleration but not of speed.
6) The author continually talks about how the pirate ships are being winched off the sandy beach and out into the surf. Exactly where is this winch line supposed to be attached to? There are no other boats out in the water. How do you winch a boat off the beach if you are on the beach?
7) The author gave a very graphic description of how a fishing trawler was attacked and the "mast was blown off its mounts". The only problem is, a trawler is a motorized fishing boat. It does not have a mast.
8) A graphic description of how the Pirates boat was closing in on the ship they were getting ready to attack said they were closing the gap at "10 kn per hour". What does that even mean? And by the way, if the Pirates boat was on a course perpendicular to the target ship, as was described, it could not be off the starboard beam of the target ship and still be on a collision course with the target. That would cause it to pass behind the target. It would have to be off the starboard bow.
9) The Pirates showed the crew of the ship they captured dynamite rigged with an electronic timer. Except from the description, it wasn't an electronic timer but rather an electronic remote detonator.
10) The seals took vials of blood for transfusion with them on their mission. No, sorry. A vial of blood is what you remove from a patient for a lab test, typically about 5-10 ml. Not very useful for a transfusion. A transfusion is done with a bag of blood, typically packed red blood cells with a total volume of between 300 and 350 mL.
These are just the ones that I picked up during a casual listen. Lord knows how many more there were that I didn't notice. This is really inexcusable. These are not highly technical issues. This information could be checked in a couple of minutes on the Internet. This is just careless writing and careless editing. Really a shame because it takes away from the entertainment value of the stories.