European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Virginia a Watts writes 11-year-old answer to Clancy today we Are pleased to present a major new literary Talent Rob Watts of Pungoteague a. Rob is 11 years old and has already written three novels which should be pretty humbling to those of you who arc full grown adults and have never produced a Complete grocery list. Rob s three novels arc entitled chopper attack world War ii and assassination in the Culf. I be sent us a copy of assassination in the Cullan espionage thriller so fast paced that we finished it in one sitting. Fortunately this was easy because assassination in the Gulf is Only two pages Long plus the front cover which features a picture of a building or possibly a boat that Rob Drew with his computer by typing the a equals Quot sign Over and Over. Rob Watts is the kind of writer who can fit a lot of plot into two pages. Other writers such As hugely successful techno thriller novelist Tom c Lancy often become so involved with describing the Complex and sophisticated machinery of modern combat that they la take two pages merely to describe a simple action a far beneath the surface of the North Atlantic inside the . Nuclear submarine sea turnip second lieutenant major sergeant commander Bart Brickman glanced at his watch. It was the roller military Chron tron Model fx-6000, with 127 separate functions including Day Date tides lunar phase relative humidity and Domestic Boot production. The display revealed to Lyric Knigin that the time was 14 10 hours. Brick u 5 5 Tomaschoff is Dusseldorf g Germany and to c o o r 1u o Man briskly punched this information into the sea turnip s main computer the 6.5-Skillion megabyte Rzt-%0000 data Humper by radio Shack. In less than one billionth of a second the computer flashed the result to Brickman on the cathode Ray tube display �?~14 h hours equals two o  snack time. Brickman turned to the general electric ls-Mft-538000 10 a hell Frost naval combat mini fridge and punched in his food Access Security fas code. Silently the door swung open. With a practice easy motion Brickman reached inside extracted a mister Mexico Grubarf-2i it Kwh j Mufed beef parts tactical Field Brit remd said it into the Amana ar-7sx-387-9382000 a death Wanner microwave oven with amphibious laser defrost capability. Then using his right Index Finger he. A and so on. This is not the Way Rob Watts writes. Rob Watts gets right to the action. Here show his Book starts Cia Headquarters a they i just heard that Saddam a brother is going to be in Norfolk this week. He might want to sabotage our naval  a Well could we kind of Well us kill him and make it look like a hit and run murder or an Accident a a we could but it would be  a Well blow up the plane hell be on Quot note the lean economical prose. Rob Watts does no to waste the readers Lime with extraneous detail concerning what the characters look like or How they feel or who specifically they Are. This plot is a runaway skateboard and if you Don t jump aboard immediately its gone. Quickly the scene shifts to Baghdad where we learn through nuance in the opening dialogue that Saddam s brother docs in fact plan to blow up the Navy base v a Bye Saddam. I la be sure to blow up their Navy base a said Saddam a brother Sod. Little did he know that on the plane packed with innocent civilians there was a bomb placed in the engines so that All would blow up when the engines were turned on at  two sentences later the plane explodes in a scene whose Stark horror is evoked by the following chilling description a aka Boom Kaboom Kaboom Kaboom a a we immediately shift Back to Cia head Quad behind the stars 1. Jack Lemmon a born in Hospital elevator 2. Cole Porter a was Yale football cheerleader 3. Bette Midler a named for Bette Davis 4. Jerry Lewis a nominated for Nobel peace prize 1978 5. Barry Manilow a lived next door to president Reagan 6. Michael Landon a took name from phone Book real name was Eugene Orowitz 7. Julia child a at age 34 could a barely boil water source celebrity Register. 1990 ters for chapter 3, which begins Quot yes we killed him that  a sir but what about the civilians in All 404 innocent american High schooners from a Small town in Iowa returning from a Field trip were killed and reduced to Little chunks this  after the word Quot big a the author has drawn a Small Ink blot to indicate the body chunk size talk about your masterful plot twists just As you the Reader arc thinking that the Climax is Over Rob Watts confounds you with a completely unexpected yet totally plausible plot Clement Iowa High school students on a Field trip in Iraq. It takes Watts another full Page to resolve the issues raised by this plot twist. I wont give away the ending except to say that it involves the following dramatic action sequence a aka Boom blam blast crash Bash a in our literary opinion you should Rush out and Purchase this novel immediately although this May be difficult inasmuch As we think we have the Only copy outside of Pungoteague a. Perhaps someday assassination in the Gulf will be made into a major but really Short motion picture. It would definitely be rated. A a a a because it has no dirty parts. This is Good. Sex always seems out of place in military thrillers a ooh Bart a moaned chief Petty Ensign commander fifth class Doreen la fume As Brickman reached for the clasp on her Bra. She was wearing the general dynamics ax-6000 Quot  armoured assault brassiere featuring Bogorad Moscow user Ltd Page 24 a sunday september 1, 1991