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Prolific St. Augustine author Bill Yancey has produced another grand adventure. “Exploded View: Nightmare Cruise” takes us on a trip from Fort Lauderdale to Hawaii on the maiden voyage of the world’s largest cruise ship.
The Marilyn Monroe, a 12-story, 1,200-foot-long floating hotel with 2,500 passengers and 100 crewmen, is the first ship of the Hollywood Stars Cruise Line, which promises “great service at reasonable prices with the luxury of the PanAm Clipper ships of the 1930s.”
But the cruise will soon become less than pleasurable. Along with several former Vietnam War POWs on the passenger list is a group of Muslim terrorists who manage to hijack the ship and bring aboard a couple of nuclear bombs.