A Need To Know by Dan Murr

Reviewed by J.B. Scott

Rating System
Excellent Read	*****
Highly Recommended	****
Very Good	***
Good	**
Not Recommended	*

Reviewer Rating: **** Stars
Title: A Need To Know
Category: Military Suspense
Author: Dan Murr
Publisher: Clocktower Books
ISBN: 0-7433-0094-7
Release Date: October 2000

What happens when a loving husband, father and grandfather, Fred Scott, out for a quiet night of fishing, suddenly comes face to face with two silent, and very deadly Soviet submarines, lurking beneath the waters off the Florida Panhandle? Dan Murr answers this question, and so much more, through a kaleidoscope of verbal imagery and heart pummeling fact. Each page is a human portrayal of three-dimensional characters, who will remain in your mind and heart, well after the last word has been read.

Once you immerse yourself in "A Need to Know", the doubt will start to niggle, pecking at your conscience...is there not a very thin line between peace over war...right versus wrong...regiment over mayhem. You'd be forgiven if that niggle, turns to alarm, of whether beyond our picket fence of safety, is there not a political struggle lurking between powerful ally turned dangerous enemy? And what about the advancement of new technology...is it not merely a playground that underscores the competitive drive in our leaders - to be paramount against all other nations? And now, the reader swimming in a sweat of full-fledged panic, you would be forgiven if you ask: how can we be certain that our top secret military projects, conversed behind closed, guarded doors, is not an open passage for espionage?

This very talented author dares to write, where few authors like to strike their pen: in fact submerged in a military cloak of fiction. Murr leaves you, the reader, wondering just what is it that our leaders don't think we need to know?