Plague Ship: A novel from the Oregon Files (Oregon Files 5) |
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Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
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Pages: 640 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141033193
Pub: Penguin
Pub date: 2009-07-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63343
Reader Reviews:
Enjoyable and engrossing (0/0 people found this helpful)
Despite some of the negative comments in other reviews I found this book engrossing and enjoyable. The stakes are pretty high, and the Oregon herself features quite prominently. While the large crew fit neatly into their stereotypical roles the characters do move the story along. I finished this in fairly short time but there's a fair amount of entertainment value to be had here.
Not his best work (0/0 people found this helpful)
Have to agree with some of the other reviews this is not Cussler at his best but we keep buying his books - why? Obviously we need some new blood. Have found a writer called Colin Turner, he has two books out there and they are both gripping reads. Move over Cussler my friend!Virgin HunterThe Oil Raider
Oh dear........... (3/4 people found this helpful)
This book is so daft that I could barely read it. Why?
Well, we start with fairly true-to-life aerial combat over an artic convoy in 1943, realistic except that the Royal Navy sends up a 130 mph Swordfish to chase a 200 mph FW Condor and - even more remarkably - succeeds. Also, this is a "Fairley" Swordfish, not a Fairey one. I thought this was a typo the first time, but not the second or the third......
Then we discover Noah's Ark in Norway........well, why not?........rather a long voyage from Mt Ararat for an ancient wooden ship, maybe......but not a problem, as its hull is copper sheathed. Coppering was a late eighteenth century development, making Noah something of a genius. The things you can learn from authors........
But things get much, much sillier after this. The hero has a prosthetic right leg, constructed of titanium and carbon fiber (yes, American spellings throughout a book priced in sterling and sold in Britain, but that I could have coped with). This gun is a "combat leg 3.0" - I'm not making this up, I promise you - and it's an arsenal in itself. It even has a single-shot 0.50 gun firing backwards through the heel (I'd love to see him hopping about trying to aim that).
Then we find that this defender of world freedom once "disrupted an ecoterrorist's plan to steer a poison-laden hurricane into the United states". Steer a hurricane? I'm sure the insurance industry and the oil industry - not to mention the people of New Orleans and Galveston - would love to know how you do that.
This review isn't long, but it could have been a lot shorter. One word. Drivel.
Fantastic (0/0 people found this helpful)
Yet again Clive Cussler has written another fantastic book. I think this is one of his best - so far.
I can hardlly wait for the next book
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