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Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0743449665
Pub: Pocket Books
Pub date: 2002-09-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 47285
Editorial Review:
Reading a Clive Cussler novel is like watching several movies at once. He's a master of the jump cut, moving the action from one continent to another with an entirely different cast of characters, good guys and bad, in each place. He always manages to pull the various characters, plots, and counterplots together, though, and the heroes always triumph in the end after saving the world from eco-terrorists, megalomaniacs with their ambitions primed for world domination, and a few regular old criminals thrown in for good measure. In this new adventure from the National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) files, Kurt Austin and his partner Joe Zavala nearly die during a powerboat race when a pod of dead, bloated grey whales bobs to the surface and obstructs the race course. Attempting to discover what killed the whales, Kurt and Joe track their migratory route to a mysterious underwater laboratory on the Baja Peninsula. Once again they narrowly miss death when the lab explodes, destroying their minisubmarine and almost poaching them alive. What seemed like a simple scientific investigation turns into something very different: a confrontation with a seven-foot Valkyrie who's bent on taking over the earth's depleted freshwater reserves. In order to thwart her plans, Austin and Zavala venture deep into the jungle of the Venezuelan rain forest to find a supposedly mythical tribal goddess (one with a PhD in science, of course) whose secret formula to desalinate seawater can put the kibosh on the Valkyrie's plans. Helped by a husband-wife NUMA team who've already made the goddess's acquaintance, plus the always fascinating techno-toys so beloved of superheroes, Kurt and Joe save the day. But before they do, there's plenty of heart-stopping action, random acts of murder and mutilation, and even a little romance. Great pacing, plenty of gadgets, a strong narrative, and bigger-than-life heroes and villains. If you've run out of summer action flicks already, make your own popcorn and curl up with Blue Gold instead. --Jane Adams
Reader Reviews:
A Typical Cussler Adventure (0/0 people found this helpful)
Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
This is a typical Cussler adventure, but better than a lot of his recent offerings. The storyline is that the world is running out of water because of pollution and overuse. There is a real danger of the planet running dry. The only answer is to convert salt water into fresh by desalination (something I thought was already possible?). A scientist Francesca Carval has perfect the process of desalination and is flying to Rio to annouce it to the world at large.
A group of terrorists attempt to hijack the place which crashes into the jungle and Francesca is not heard of again until ten years later when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team find Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle. Virtually at the same time Austin stumbles across a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply and are prepared to annihilate anyone who stands in their way . . .
A Typical Cussler Adventure (0/0 people found this helpful)
Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
This is a typical Cussler adventure, but better than a lot of his recent offerings. The storyline is that the world is running out of water because of pollution and overuse. There is a real danger of the planet running dry. The only answer is to convert salt water into fresh by desalination (something I thought was already possible?). A scientist Francesca Carval has perfect the process of desalination and is flying to Rio to annouce it to the world at large.
A group of terrorists attempt to hijack the place which crashes into the jungle and Francesca is not heard of again until ten years later when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team find Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle. Virtually at the same time Austin stumbles across a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply and are prepared to annihilate anyone who stands in their way . . .
A Typical Cussler Adventure (0/0 people found this helpful)
Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
This is a typical Cussler adventure, but better than a lot of his recent offerings. The storyline is that the world is running out of water because of pollution and overuse. There is a real danger of the planet running dry. The only answer is to convert salt water into fresh by desalination (something I thought was already possible?). A scientist Francesca Carval has perfect the process of desalination and is flying to Rio to annouce it to the world at large.
A group of terrorists attempt to hijack the place which crashes into the jungle and Francesca is not heard of again until ten years later when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team find Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle. Virtually at the same time Austin stumbles across a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply and are prepared to annihilate anyone who stands in their way . . .
A Typical Cussler Adventure (0/0 people found this helpful)
Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
This is a typical Cussler adventure, but better than a lot of his recent offerings. The storyline is that the world is running out of water because of pollution and overuse. There is a real danger of the planet running dry. The only answer is to convert salt water into fresh by desalination (something I thought was already possible?). A scientist Francesca Carval has perfect the process of desalination and is flying to Rio to annouce it to the world at large.
A group of terrorists attempt to hijack the place which crashes into the jungle and Francesca is not heard of again until ten years later when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team find Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle. Virtually at the same time Austin stumbles across a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply and are prepared to annihilate anyone who stands in their way . . .
New heroes, same story (0/0 people found this helpful)
A beautiful female scientist has found the secret of a process to produce drinking water from seawater, but the leader of an imperium that controls the world's water supplies wants to get her out of the way. She ends up in the Amazonian jungle, where she is found by two of Kurt's colleagues. In the meantime Kurt and Joe try to solve the death of a group of whales before the coast of Mexico. Soon they find out that their quest is related to that of their colleagues. Their explorations bring them from Mexico to Alaska and then to the shores of Lake Tahoe, where they stop the impending global disaster only a few days before it is due to happen.
Here is your recipe for the 21st century's books by Clive Cussler: replace Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino by Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, Dirk's love for old cars by Kurt's love for duelling pistols and let the rest of the ingredients be the same: NUMA, the wisecracks, the superhuman efforts, the beautiful ladies and the megalomanic villain that wants to rule the world. Normally speaking such changes irritate me, but Kurt and Joe are so much like Dirk and Al that one hardly notices the difference. And all in all it is just a nice action thriller to read on a warm summer's day (or a long winter night).
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