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Clive Cussler
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Pages: 560 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0718149750
Pub: Michael Joseph Ltd
Pub date: 2006-11-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19604
Reader Reviews:
stamina (0/1 people found this helpful)
You need more stamina than the two super heroes put together to get to the end of this one, a mish mash of subjects some well researched some not and the same characterless people. Each book seems less riveting than the last.
Good but not Great (0/1 people found this helpful)
Interesting book involving buried treasure of Genghis Khan and an evil Mongolian war monger who is causing earthquakes by blowing up fault lines.
The story is really great and the characters are brilliant althought the 2 Dirk's get get me a bit confused.
The action takes place across desserts and on water in Russian Lakes and underwater.
A far superior book to Sahara and some of his latest ones but falls short of DRAGON and TREASURE
A good recommendation for all timedivers (3/3 people found this helpful)
"I've never yet found drinking in a bar to be a waste of time....."
(Albert Giordino)
In the year of 1281 a "gods' wind" destroyed the fleet that has been sent by Kublai Khan for an invasion of Nippon.....
.....656 years afterwards the Imperial Japanese Army succeded in forcing ahead from her Chinese satellite state Mandshukuo, that was founded n 1932, to Shang-Tu and occupied the eastern part of the so called "Mongolia Interior".....
These historical facts are serving the authors for two opening short stories and background of the 19th adventure around Dirk Pitt, meanwhile married an head of the "National Underwater & Marine Agency" an his buddy Al Giordino. At the beginning of the plot (Which starts, regarding the publication of the novel, in the near future, namely June 2007) the two NUMA-veterans are saving a patrol exploration team from an enormous wave on the sibirian Baikal Lake. The overnight disappearance of the rescued explorers is followed by several mysterious earthquakes in the Gulf of Persia, which cause a big loss of petrol production and a huge rise in prizes. Meanwhile Dirk Sr. an Al pickup the trail that leads them in the Republic of Mongolia, Pitt Jr., his sister Summer and their colleague Jack Dahlgren are discovering an archeological sensation in the Keliuli Bay of Hawaii....
With "Treasure of Khan" Clive Cussler and his son Dirk again are presenting a plentiful action and tension loaded thriller that connects three different time levels in an intelligent way. Beside usual technical details and ironic elements the original and logical story this time also shows a cameo scene with Clive Cussler (together with his "Dachshund") as a bus driving development aid worker. Apart from Admiral James Sandecker, meanwhile US-Vice President, also heavy weighted St. Julien Perlmutter, NUMA-Vice President Rudi Gunn and computer freak Hiram Yeager are appearing as old acquaintances.
A good recommendation for all timedivers and fans of Cussler, Pitt, NUMA etc. or those who are still willing to become...
4 Amazonstars.
A good recommendation for all timedivers (3/3 people found this helpful)
"I've never yet found drinking in a bar to be a waste of time....."
(Albert Giordino)
In the year of 1281 a "gods' wind" destroyed the fleet that has been sent by Kublai Khan for an invasion of Nippon.....
.....656 years afterwards the Imperial Japanese Army succeded in forcing ahead from her Chinese satellite state Mandshukuo, that was founded n 1932, to Shang-Tu and occupied the eastern part of the so called "Mongolia Interior".....
These historical facts are serving the authors for two opening short stories and background of the 19th adventure around Dirk Pitt, meanwhile married an head of the "National Underwater & Marine Agency" an his buddy Al Giordino. At the beginning of the plot (Which starts, regarding the publication of the novel, in the near future, namely June 2007) the two NUMA-veterans are saving a patrol exploration team from an enormous wave on the sibirian Baikal Lake. The overnight disappearance of the rescued explorers is followed by several mysterious earthquakes in the Gulf of Persia, which cause a big loss of petrol production and a huge rise in prizes. Meanwhile Dirk Sr. an Al pickup the trail that leads them in the Republic of Mongolia, Pitt Jr., his sister Summer and their colleague Jack Dahlgren are discovering an archeological sensation in the Keliuli Bay of Hawaii....
With "Treasure of Khan" Clive Cussler and his son Dirk again are presenting a plentiful action and tension loaded thriller that connects three different time levels in an intelligent way. Beside usual technical details and ironic elements the original and logical story this time also shows a cameo scene with Clive Cussler (together with his "Dachshund") as a bus driving development aid worker. Apart from Admiral James Sandecker, meanwhile US-Vice President, also heavy weighted St. Julien Perlmutter, NUMA-Vice President Rudi Gunn and computer freak Hiram Yeager are appearing as old acquaintances.
A good recommendation for all timedivers and fans of Cussler, Pitt, NUMA etc. or those who are still willing to become...
4 Amazonstars.
Don't Bother (5/8 people found this helpful)
This book is very bad! I had been expecting more from Mr. Cussler and Son but this is a rambling book with a mediocre plot [in fact it loses the plot in some instances] which mixes geophysical research with medieval history and badly at that. If you are interested in seiche waves and/or plate tectonics try Wiki there's probably as much there as in this book. If it's Genghis and Co. then Conn Iggulden's new Wolf of the Plains, is a much better book, clearly written with good pace, characterisation and empathetic description. Very disappointing!
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