The Silent Sea (Oregon Files 7) |
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Clive Cussler
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Pages: 416 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0718155858
Pub: Michael Joseph
Pub date: 2010-03-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2612
Reader Reviews:
the silent sea (0/0 people found this helpful)
another good read from cussler,bags of action we have all come to expect.the sea might be silent but the book is not.
Cussler's at it again. (0/0 people found this helpful)
I never miss any of Clive Cussler's books. Have read everything he's penned so far and this one was as good as anything in the Oregon series.
Fast paced, witty and an unusual baddie. You'll know what I mean when you read it!
I sometimes thought that I would lose interest in a writer so prolific as Clive Cussler, he does tend to churn them out, but his method of changing from "hero to hero" book by book, tends to make you look forward to the next Dirk Pitt or Kurt Austin or Issac Bell or in this case Juan Cabrillo.
If you have not picked up on Cussler yet, do so, but try and get in at the beginning as there is a thread to the characters he as created and they are page turners that you can return to, if like me they fill the bookshelves alongside Wilbur Smith.
A great story (0/0 people found this helpful)
A really good read with a story line that holds you. As usual with Clive Cussler novels I found myself saying just one more chapter and couldn't put it down. Overall an exciting rollercoaster of a read with just the right mix of action, humour and character development.
A Plot That Keeps Surprising (0/0 people found this helpful)
"If we say, 'We will enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die." And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses--the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!" -- 2 Kings 7:4-6 (NKJV)
I've been a fan of the Oregon Files series from the beginning as well as the earlier Dirk Pitt books that Clive Cussler wrote. In the formula for these books, you start with a historical mystery or two and go on from there to meet some present-day evil-doers . . . with the various story elements totally related. Usually, you can figure out in a few seconds what the connections are among the story elements. That's not the case in The Silent Sea, which made the plot much more appealing to me.
I would rate the book more highly, but I found the action sequences to be less effective than the plot. There was a predictability about most of them that made the book seem a little flat in places, just when it was intended to be most exciting. The advanced technology of the Oregon is also more than a little over the top at times.
I did like it that the evil-doers and their motives didn't seem nearly as far-fetched as they are in some of the Cussler books.
It's all good fun, one of the best books in the Oregon Files series. Don't miss it!
As the book opens, a group of brothers are poised to probe a treasure pit rumored to contain pirate booty. Because of scientific reasons, they take the plunge on December 7, 1941 . . . with ramifications that shake their world. You'll also visit some other locales that probably aren't totally familiar to you. What could the link be?
The Silent Sea (0/0 people found this helpful)
I bought this book for my husband, who normally takes while to read a book. But he couldn't put this one down! He said it was an excellent story very exciting and hard to put down.
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