Skeleton Coast: A Novel from the Oregon Files |
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Clive Cussler, Jack DuBrul
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Pages: 480 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0718148010
Pub: Michael Joseph Ltd
Pub date: 2007-06-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 95484
Reader Reviews:
Another Gripping Tale from the Author (7/13 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.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon, a well disguised combat shop have barely escaped from a mission on the Congo River. Not in a hurry to commit is men to anything else for a while when the radio operator intercepts a mayday call from a boat under fire off the African coast. Much as he would like to ignore the Mayday, no seaman with an ounce of self-respect can ignore such a call. Cabrillo takes the appropriate action and saves the beautiful Sloane Macintyre.
Sloane is looking for a long lost sunken ship that could hold a fortune in diamonds. But what intrigues Cabrillo most of all is her story about a mad fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area by giant metal snakes . . .
Another Clear Winner for the Author (6/12 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.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon, a well disguised combat shop have barely escaped from a mission on the Congo River. Not in a hurry to commit is men to anything else for a while when the radio operator intercepts a mayday call from a boat under fire off the African coast. Much as he would like to ignore the Mayday, no seaman with an ounce of self-respect can ignore such a call. Cabrillo takes the appropriate action and saves the beautiful Sloane Macintyre.
Sloane is looking for a long lost sunken ship that could hold a fortune in diamonds. But what intrigues Cabrillo most of all is her story about a mad fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area by giant metal snakes . . .
Another Gripping Tale from the Author (7/13 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.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon, a well disguised combat shop have barely escaped from a mission on the Congo River. Not in a hurry to commit is men to anything else for a while when the radio operator intercepts a mayday call from a boat under fire off the African coast. Much as he would like to ignore the Mayday, no seaman with an ounce of self-respect can ignore such a call. Cabrillo takes the appropriate action and saves the beautiful Sloane Macintyre.
Sloane is looking for a long lost sunken ship that could hold a fortune in diamonds. But what intrigues Cabrillo most of all is her story about a mad fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area by giant metal snakes . . .
Vastly superior to Cussler's most recent novels! (7/9 people found this helpful)
I had grown weary of Cussler's mass produced adventure novels none matched the quality of his early work, but I really did enjoy this collaboration with Jack Du Brule. I like the character Juan Cabrillo, he is a great hero with the dash and style and humor. The book has plenty of mystery and twists and turns and even Dirk Pitt makes an appearance which was very cool! If you are an old time Cussler fan who have not been happy with his more recent efforts I recommend you give this one a try. If you Like Dirk Pitt then you might want to try "Tourist in the Yucatan" awesome adventure thriller with a rouge character named Travis Horn. Reminded me of meeting Pitt the first time in "Raise the Titantic!"
The Sand - The Sands - The empty place of Sands (2/2 people found this helpful)
Clive Cussler's latest book, has a riveting story with excellent peices of geographic and enviromentalist info. The story is about Cabrillo and bringing in Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin. Once again Cussler has proven that he is a quality story teller who can make a exciting book out of a shopping trip to the corner store.
It's fiction, but exciting fiction, within the bounds of
*BOND*-ability *(tm)
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