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A good story, plenty of action...but a bit too many bizarre analogies. EDIT: I enjoyed this more the second time around.

This is the only Cussler I've read, so maybe it's a bad sampling, but bottom line, Cussler has too much tell and not enough show in his writing. You could make a great drinking game out of taking a shot for every explained simile/analogy. His heroes are too perfect and his villains are... also prett Leggi tutto

Not the best Cussler I've read, but not bad. The adventure was good & the plot OK. Just typical fun read, or in this case listing to, to pass time while driving around town on various errands. I gave it 4* because of David Purdham's masterful narration.

Standard fare with the bad people trying to control the world's fresh water supply. But fear not as our heroes win in the end.

Clive Cussler once had my attention. His books were well-researched, he seemed to understand a great deal about geology, archaeology, etc. and the first few Dirk Pitt novels I read were outstanding. Over the years, his books have slowly lost their appeal to me. They seem to grown in absurdity and uni Leggi tutto

Got 29 % in this book and I just couldn't take it anymore. Feel like the writing and the dialogue to be cluncky and don't have a good flow to it. It doesn't feel well written and was a slough to get through, yes it seems to be well researched but not even that could safe it for me. Don't know why I

Currently reading. I've read Cussler's books since I was a teenager. It was a habit I obtained from my father. I was fairly certain I had read all of them (except for the most recent two), but I came across this one at the Niantic Book Barn. All of Cussler's stories are pretty much the same: 1) Some f Leggi tutto

Clive Cussler once again delivers in a thrilling action/adventure. Blue Gold is the second entry in the NUMA (Kurt Austin) series, so far I've only read , and now Blue Gold, obviously, HAHA! NUMA team leader of Special Assignments Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala are investigating the sudd

Amazon Indians & neo-Vikings ? Surprisingly, the twin stories of Austin & the Trouts works ! With a love interest that has a hint of Summer & a global peril that foreshadows the global real-world issue of water shortages by an uncomfortably close margin.

I've never read Cussler, but I really enjoyed the movie version of his book Sahara , and this NUMA Files tale was no less exciting. Nor does it star Dirk Pitt. To begin, Dr. Francesca Cabral has discovered a process that can cheaply and efficiently desalinate water, and is on her way to the UN to pres Leggi tutto