--- product_id: 40877363 title: "The Last Ship: A Novel" brand: "william brinkley" price: "€ 36.47" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/40877363-the-last-ship-a-novel store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # The Last Ship: A Novel **Brand:** william brinkley **Price:** € 36.47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Last Ship: A Novel by william brinkley - **How much does it cost?** € 36.47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/40877363-the-last-ship-a-novel) ## Best For - william brinkley enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted william brinkley brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Last Ship: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717n9UlxyqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Possibly the most tedious book I've ever read *by G***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016* This book was just a painful read. The author must have gone out of his way to use the most torturous sentence structure imaginable. Semicolons should be used rarely and with reason and effect, not in every other sentence. I consider myself to be reasonably well-read, with a better than average command of the English language, but this book had me using the dictionary lookup on my Kindle constantly. As for the less technical complaints, the plot moves much too slowly. The overly wordy, repetitive descriptions make the entire novel two to three times longer than it needs to be. And, last, some of the descriptions of the love scenes border on vulgar - not at all needed or appreciated in a novel like this. The idea of a post-apoplectic survivors' tale that didn't involve super viruses or zombies sounded good, but this book just doesn't deliver. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A good story, a litery slog *by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2016* First, beyond the names of a few of the characters (and the ship) this book has nothing to do with the TV show. Just so you know. If you are looking for an illumination of the show, look elsewhere.An interesting story, nothing to do with the TV show, but literary slog. You should download the Kindle sample before you decide the prose is worth the effort.As this book was written nearly 20 years ago, lots of reviews have been written, so feel free to look them up. Most make similar points. Then you can decide if you want to invest in reading this book (625 pages and 14 hours, according to Kindle).The most common point is that there is a good story here, but it can be a labor getting through the author's convoluted prose. His complex inverted sentence structure can induce skimming for actual dialog, for which you might go several pages (see what I mean about inverted?) and he writes as if he held a thesaurus in his lap. I've no way of knowing, as he is now dead. He may have actually had such a working vocabulary. But I doubt it, given he occasionally conflates "further" with "farther" and the like.I get the impression he is attempting to be "literary", but he comes off as a poor attempt to emulate Arthur Conan Doyle.Another point is an implicit misogyny. The Navy had then just allowed female midshipmen (itself, a nomenclature irony) and in the imagined (at the time) allowance of presence shipboard. So, in this futuristic setting the interaction of on-board female and male personnel is imagined. For this, he can be forgiven as it is speculative from 1988 to some only imagined future date.So summary: An interesting story, nothing to do with the TV show, a literary slog. I found it worth the effort for the story, but I am a fast reader, so the slog wasn't to onerous. ### ⭐ The Lonely And Boring Tale Of The Nathan James *by K***9 on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2018* I won't lie The Last Ship a really interesting idea. A crew on a missile destroyer miles away from land are the only survivors of a nuclear war that has destroyed not only America but the rest of the world. The detail in this story is good as William informs every bit of what Nathan James does and how it all works gives the reader what they need to know about everything going on in the story.However my problem with The Last Ship is their is not a lot of dialog between characters and when their is they don't have much to say. When you start off on chapter 1 the story goes to the events after WWIII then backwards to the beginning which I really don't like having to backtrack in a story. Also their is no scenes where the captain of Nathan James tells his crew the horrible news that their families, friends, children, wives and husbands are dead. It goes from how the event happened till a month later where the ship is sailing through the ruins of London.And last their aren't that many characters we get to meet in the story it's just mostly the captain talking with one or two people that's about in and very little background on these characters as well. For a novel that's over 600 pages long I thought it would have more then this but it doesn't and what a shame as the idea for this story sounded good but when it comes to the story telling it fails to make it interesting. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/40877363-the-last-ship-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/40877363-the-last-ship-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*