This was a pretty good spy/action thriller. I never did comprehend how the crystals used as a "superweapon" in the story, somehow graduated to usage in a Supercomputer-- but I wrote it down to my own lack of comprehension.Sadly, there are times when the Team figures out stuff that they absolutel...
I would not have made it through two-thirds of this book had it not been for the fact that my husband and I were listening to it on a long journey and we had nothing else to read. Frankly, we both found the novel boring. While it is full of action and intrigue, and will probably appeal to a rea...
Another easy read to fill in gaps This book was great. I read it because the author is my favorite and all his books are great.
This is one of those lads books you take for an easy read on holiday or to kill some time. If you could imagine you were an indestructible ex special forces agent with your own army of similar individuals and every possible piece of special forces equipment all housed in a state of the art battl...
I was first introduced to the characters, Sam and Remi Fargo, in Spartan Gold. It was an awesome read, and using a married couple as the protagonists worked very well. Perhaps what I liked even more was that they came across as down-to-earth capable people and Cussler had them resolve edge-of-the...
Straight up adventure..My first of Cussler. He kept me in it for sure, and based on the many action packed novels I see he has, will no doubt give him another go in the future. Main Characters, husband and wife team, like to live on the edge and dig up treasure's. They bit off more than they coul...
It's been a few years since I have read a Dirk Pitt novel. They're fun, but not too much deep, except for the diving :-) Beach reading. This one has a bit of Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, as the U.S. Navy is developing a superfast, super quiet submarine. A crazy Austrian steals the plans...
I read about half of it and skimmed the rest. Despite his other successful books, this one was about as dry as dust with no character development at all. The plot: a rich couple who claim to be archaeologists try to unearth a treasure left by Attila the Hun before another evil rich guy does so. T...
Another installment from the NUMA files, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are once again thrust into a dangerous situation.Maximillion Thero is a brilliant physicist. He is also mad and suffering from a split personality. He has figured out how to tap into zero point energy, an almost limitless energy ...
What a let-down. Clive Cussler must have a love-hate relationship with Thomas Perry, his co-author for this Fargo Adventure book. Too bored to write his own stuff anymore, but enamored of the income stream from old fans, Cussler seems to have dictated that Perry dumbs down .... well, just about ...
Several of the older gentlemen patrons at the library that I used to work at recommended Clive Cussler. It has been on my list to read a book by Clive Cussler for quite a while. I found the storyline to be a male fantasy of technology, rescueing damsels in distress, and para-military adventure....
Isaac Bell saves the day again.Great descriptions of the COMINTERN and gangsters. Relevant to today - Ever since the founding of the United States, there have been others (nations, state-sponsored political activists, unions going beyond the welfare of the worker, criminals, and now terrorists) t...
I found the second book in the Isaac Bell series just as exciting as the first. Well done. En weer presteert de schrijver het ook een leuke hoofdpersoon te bedenken
Dirk, Al, Summer, and Dirk Jr are back together. But when are the Messers Cussler going to turn over the keys full time, so to speak, to Summer and Dirk Jr? Seems like Dirk was able to quickly ditch his responsibilities as head of NUMA to run of to the Caribbean. It's as if he can bolt any tim...
Inhoud: Ergens op de bodem van de Atlantische Oceaan liggen de schamele resten van het luxe passagiersschip de Andrea Doria. Maar zeer weinigen weten dat er zich in het ruim een onbetaalbare schat uit de pre-Colombiaanse oudheid bevindt - de ontbrekende schakel in de geschiedenis van de mensheid....
Flood Tide by Clive CusslertThe book starts out by retelling the story of a boat called “The Princess Dou Wan” as it sailed through some rough seas towards Singapore in order to be scrapped. The story recounts how the only survivors of the wreck clambered into a raft and sat in it waiting for the...
If I’d not been assigned to read this for my "Master Class" workshop for professional fiction writers, it is unlikely that I would have picked it up, because it is not my favorite genre. However, of all the genres in the reading assignment thus far, it has been my favorite.Cussler’s writing is r...
May have slight spoilers.In this fifteenth Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler, Dirk is once again saving the world from terrible, catastrophic destruction that would kill millions if not all people on earth; not to mention the plant life, sea life and animal life as well.As with this authors' other...
i do enjoy novels where some sort of plan is well designed and executed, you know a la count of monte cristo. also, i listened to another instalment of the oregon files series (The Jungle. Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul) and liked it. additionally, some good cheap action where the good guys are ...
Treasure of Khan is Clive Cussler’s 19th Dirk Pitt adventure and the second co-written with his son, Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt is Cussler’s answer to Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Pitt, now the Director of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency), is often embroiled in the battle against megaloma...
I’ve read a lot of these Cussler books, and while I’ve enjoyed them all, I have to tell you, this one is my absolute favorite.Critics of this series will be quick to point out that Dirk Pitt is just too hard to believe. He’s a myriad of super heroes all rolled into one flawless man. But my expe...
I enjoyed this book a lot for being a thriller and an action adventure but its use of Vikings in the plot proved to be a bit of 'all talk and no substance'. The very first chapter is about Vikings settling and discovering North America but not an event that has a happy ending.The rest of the stor...
This was [and still is] an interesting, if dated book, in my opinion. My first acquaintance with this book was my uncle's bookshelf when I would spend the night at my grandparent's house - I was always fascinated by the covers of many of his paperbacks. This one was always eerie - the glowing c...
This series used to be a lot more fun. Either I've matured, or the melodramatic prose has just gotten worse. This story concerns a biological terrorist attack planned against the United States. It offered some interest as it described submarines built with floating hangars for launching sea pl...
Clive Cussler must have been watching the Discovery Channel on cable television and came up with a new idea for a story. Originally aired in 2000, this cable show presented a documentary on the cataclysmic effects of an undersea earthquake off the eastern seaboard of the United States. Interviewe...
In 1945, three US bombers, each carrying a single atomic bomb, took off for Japan in an attempt to end the war once and for all. Only two of those bombers delivered their payloads. The third was spotted by a Japanese patrol and the plane, along with its deadly cargo, came to rest on the ocean f...
Este é o típico livro de aventura em que não faltam peripécias no mar, em ilhas remotas e a componente tecnológica, neste caso centrada em torno de dispositivos capazes de influenciar o campo eletromagnético do planeta Terra, podendo provocar uma troca entre os polos magnéticos do planeta, e afet...
The one that started it all...the first published (second written) adventure of Dirk Pitt and the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) is well worth picking up as the story contains all the hallmarks Cussler established and has used for Pitt and his crew ever since - including a great plo...
When American forces invaded Iraq the first time, the Baghdad Museum was looted of valuable treasures. UNESCO agent Carina Mechadi is on their trail, and jumps at the chance when wealthy businessman Viktor Baltazar offers to privately finance her search, asking only that she keep him informed of...
In the foreword, Clive Cussler mentioned that he created Dirk Pitt to be a character in the vein of James Bond, and he certainly brings that to mind. Not in the most flattering way for me though. He reminds of the aspects of the Bond films from the 60s-80s I did not like. The casual disregard f...
The cover blurb really, is not fibbing when it gleefully informs you that this is "Dirk Pitt's greatest adventure!". For, it truly is.Its a one-of-a-kind conception. A unique reading experience in the annals of all paperback thrillers past, present, and future. And--if memory serves--this is the ...
Several years ago I picked up a copy of THE SEA HUNTERS by Clive Cussler. Although I had enjoyed nearly a dozen of his Dirk Pitt novels, a book about the true adventures of the real NUMA team sounded interesting. Interesting didn't begin to describe it. By the time I'd finished reading, the book ...
This was a fast read. One of his 'shorter' books, due in part to it being an earlier adventure. It moved at a fast pace and is definitely vintage Cussler. So much better than the stories being co-written with and written by his son! It has a fast flow to it and, as always, requires some kind of s...
In the second book in Clive Cussler’s Oregon Files series we find the Corporation up against an antagonist who seems to have unlimited funds, world wide resources to draw on, and connections in multiple key nations throughout the world. Has the Chairman Juan Cabrillo met his match ?STORY ATTRIBUT...
Sam told Lazlo as he took a seat next to Remi. “Your underwater photographs were top-notch,” Lazlo said. “We were able to enhance the features—well, actually, Pete and Wendy get the credit for that,” he said, referring to Selma’s research assistants, Pete Jeffcoat and Wend...
Eddie Seng hung out near the back of the room with Linc and two gundogs, Mike Trono and Jerry Pulaski. With Eric Stone’s assistance, Hali had performed nothing less than a miracle.“While Max was still broadcasting, I got in touch with a few amateur radio buffs I’ve gotten to know over the years a...
Armed with his SIG Sauer pistol, he carjacked the first vehicle that came along, a rusted-out pickup driven by a barely coherent Rastafarian who reeked of marijuana. One shot to the head and Bazin had transportation. He stashed the corpse in the trees and sped toward Montego Bay’s Sangster Intern...
He was only steps away when a figure burst through it and tore at full speed down the hall. Sam hissed, “Get help. Have the hotel call the police,” and took off after the thief. His shoulder slammed into the wall as he rounded the corner just in time to see the steel exit ...
Above, the sky was a cloudless royal blue. The crisp air was perfectly still. “More stupas,” Thule announced, pointing out the side window. “There . . . and there. You see.” “We do,” Sam replied, he and Remi glancing out Sam’s rolled-down window. Shortly after leaving Jomsom that morning, they’d ...
Kurt rushed on, heading up the ramp. Joe was right behind him. Kurt went from a sprint to a jog. The glare from the orange lights and the shadows where those lights were blocked made it difficult to see. He swung wide, not interested in being jumped by someone hiding in a ...
Van Dorn detectives shadowed them so discreetly from the 20th Century’s LaSalle Street Station to the Golden State’s Dearborn Station that even Bell only spotted them twice. Once aboard the Golden State, he asked a Van Dorn agent costumed as a conductor if they’d been foll...
Three of the four torpedoes fired from the Iranian Kilo Class sub were fanning out and tracking toward their targets, while the sonar showed the fourth had slowed so much that the computer gave only its approximate location. There was less than two miles separating the containership Saga from the...
Hagen ran headlong for the fort in the distance, propelled forward by a sense of shock and fear. Things were going from bad to worse. He’d listened in with a bug as Kensington almost told the men from NUMA what he was after. He’d panicked and demanded that the men from Osiris kill the museum cura...
The shoreline to the west was less than three miles away and he could make out a small village. He checked his map and determined that it was the town of Rivas. He then turned his attention to a large majestic island in the shape of a figure eight, no more than five miles to the west, that looked...
she said. “I can feel the air leaking through them.”He waved her to the back. “Drive the boat for a second.”She came back to the transom, and Kurt took a look at what she’d found. Eight little holes, some of which were so small he could press the rubber together and the air stopped escaping.“What...