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This is the first Cussler I have read. Initially I was a bit skeptical although the reviews were good. The book cover also did not impress me (believe it or not), so it sat on my shelf for a couple of years when I decided to finally dust it and start reading. It was not a bad book at all. The backgr Leggi tutto

While this was a good story parts of it are questionable. I mean really...the hurricane about tears apart a hurricane plane but a helicopter can fly through it and drop 'em off on a boat in the storm so they can "save the day"? And one of the druid male victims...starts out saying he was a rich publ Leggi tutto

This potboiler is the sort of bad writing that comes of too much, or too easy success that leads one to think he or she can just knock out a book over a weekend or two and a bottle of Scotch. Just in the first part, there is a hurricane barreling towards the Caribbean heading "due east." This is rep Leggi tutto

I wasn't as in love with this one as the first 16 books, but I understand why.

A friend loaned me this book to read. I hadn’t read any other Cussler books, and this is the 17th book in the series, so perhaps I would have rated it higher if I had a better understanding of the main characters. The book begins with a new theory of the Trojan War - that it actually involved the Cel Leggi tutto

As usual for this author, this book was a blast.

I’m the kind of guy who buys reprints of pulp fiction. I’m delighted that Charles Ardai’s Hard Case Crime series reprints gritty novels from that era and I even buy reprints of Doc Savage, Justice, Inc., The Shadow, and The Spider when I see them. I have often lamented the fact that there isn’t anyt Leggi tutto