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Clive Cussler
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Pages: 544 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141017716
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 2006-03-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 56928
Reader Reviews:
Not One of Mr. Cussler's Better Offerings (1/1 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.
Lost City is not one of Clive Cussler's best books and I have to admit to being a little disappointed with it. However it is quite readable, if a little far fetched and better than a lot of the so called `Adventure novels' in the book stores today.
An enzyme or chemical catalyst has been discovered two thousand feet below the North Atlantic, in an area known as the `Lost City.' The enzyme has been proved to extend life, but why are the people who are attempting to harvest the substance getting killed?
Why are the scientists from a remote Greek laboratory systematically disappearing one by one? And what does all this have to doe with a body found in the ice high up in the Alps? Kurt Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala from NUMA's Special Assignment Team may have their greatest ever challenge.
Yawn (2/5 people found this helpful)
The last time i'll buy a Cussler book, don't waste your time, he seems not to have in producing this 'adventure'. If he paid as much attention to his own writing than the film adaptation of another book he might have saved his reputation, but no more for me.
All Action Thriller (3/4 people found this helpful)
As with all Clive Cussler novels that I have read, the plot very far fetched, and the heros/heroines seem to have more lives than a cat!
This prologue of the book starts with a air battle in September 1914, where one of the carachters is in a plane with a synchronising mechanism that allows the machine gun to fire through the propeller. This mechanism was not if fact invented until the Spring of 1915.
However, from the start, the book did grab my attention. The action swings from Paris to rural France, Scotland, and a number of underwater locations, and there is rarely a dull moment.
The different nationalities, that the various main characters come across on their adventures are however, very stereotypical. This is a common trait I find in this author's books.
Overall, though, the book is pure escapism, should keep your attention (if you can get over the far-fetched pieces) and is ideal for a holiday read. If you have not read any of Clive Cussler's other books, I would recommend Sahara or Dragon, ahead of this one.
Not another super-hero? (5/7 people found this helpful)
I used to be a Clive Cussler fan in the early Dirk Pitt days. Now, if you want your books to be like a 'superhero' comic but without the pictures, this one is for you. I frankly gave up long before halfway as I just couldn't suspend belief enough to enjoy the not so well-written escapades of yet another all-American hero with yet another gorgeous sidekick/love interest. Where are they when you need them, I wonder? I am sure the author's fans will read on and enjoy the book. I didn't and I won't waste my money on another. The stars awarded are for the author's imagination.
A sad loss of form (3/5 people found this helpful)
I am a long serving clive cussler fan, owning every book he has ever put down, including Dirk Pitt revealed, enjoy it as a change from something heavier while on holiday etc.
I read the book in two days, primarily so I didnt have to have it on show in my flat for more time than required. Cussler has written some fantastic fiction, such as Sahara and Inca Gold, and this epitomises the feeling.
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