Sacred Stone: A Novel from the Oregon Files |
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Clive Cussler
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Pages: 544 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141010320
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 2006-10-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23331
Reader Reviews:
Disappointed (0/0 people found this helpful)
Just finished this book, though fairly enjoyable the plot was a bit far-fetched and the characters very one dimentional.
Certainly not one of Cussler's best books, rather writing by numbers.
Another Juan Cabrillo Novel (1/3 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.
Clive Cussler began his series The Oregon Files, with the adventure of the Golden Buddha featuring the captain of the Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. Now he follows on the series with the Sacred Stone a new adventure featuring Juan Cabrillo.
The whole world is put at risk when an ancient artifact that possesses enormous radioactive power in unearthed in a remote part of Greenland. Caught between two militant powers that are bent on using that power to commit wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies known as The Corporation must do everything in their power to protect the stone from all the factions that are doing their utmost to obtain the artifact. Only in this way will World War III be averted.
A Bit Disappointing (0/0 people found this helpful)
I have read most of Clive Cussler's novels, but I did not think this was one of his better ones. It is different from his other novels, as it is not a one man show like Dirk Pitt or Kurt Austin, but a group known as the 'Corporation', who have to save the world from the bad guys. I guess this makes the story a bit more believable.
In this case there are two sets of bad guys. Islamic fundamentalists, who wish to blow up London, and an American businessman, who wants to destroy Mecca. Both are trying to get their hands on an ancient piece of Meteorite, that will help with their plans.
I found the book a bit monotonous in places, something that rarely happens in this author's other books, and a bit of a struggle at times. I felt there was way too many characters involved. I would not say the book was awful, but it is definitely not as good as the author's earlier works.
If you are new to Clive Cussler, I would recommend, Sahara, Treasure or Dragon as good reads.
1-D Characters !! (0/0 people found this helpful)
As a Clive Cussler fan I was extremely disappointed with this novel.
My main gripe was that the chararcters had no personality and that goes for the hero Juan Cabrillo : he was just an action man and that was it.
The characters were one dimensional just like cardboard cut outs. It would be interesting to know how much Cussler wrote and how much Craig Dirgo wrote ! They did much research into Islam but shoddy research into Britain as the other reviewers have shown.
Come on Clive,you can do much better than this !
OK his UK geography not great but this is a readable book (3/4 people found this helpful)
I always like to read other reviews of books I've just read and having read the two previous reviews I felt compelled to establish a bit of balance. Yep CC probably needs to buy the AA Road Map of Britain. And I agree that it is a tad far fetched but then so were all of his excellent Dirk Pitt stories. So is James Bond! If you want reality read Ludlam or Le Carre.
This is a typical Cussler adventure. It is fast paced, unbelievable but good fun. If you like his other novels then you'll probably not be disappointed. It is not his best but it doesn't deserve 1 star reviews just because he mixes Glasgow with Edinburgh in one sentence (which has noting to do with the plot).
It is the first Oregon files book I have read and having completed it, I will certainly give the other books a go.
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