Genre: Adventure
Series: #5 in the Kurt Austin series
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 515
Challenges: TBR 2009 Challenge Alternate #10
This was a perfect vacation book. This series is just fun escapist adventure. Lots of action, improbable plots, heroic good guys, malevolent bad guys all wrapped up in a story that reads like a Saturday afternoon adventure movie.
In 1914 a one man plane crashes after a dogfight with unnamed foes. Jules Fauchard was apparently on some sort of personal mission that could have potentially saved millions of people.
In present day Scotland, a TV crew is brutally attacked by strange creatures. In Greece, a scientist is on the run from his former employers, who may be trying to kill him. Another group of scientists studying a glacier in the French Alps discovers a man frozen in the ice of the glacier. Kurt Austin and his National Underwater Marine Agency team are exploring a nearby lake. Another NUMA team is trying to find a way to prevent a noxious fast reproducing weed from choking the world’s oceans.
Oh yeah, it’s all connected and since it’s Clive Cussler you know that there’s some crazed megalomaniac behind it all with plans to rule the world. You also know that there will be chases in and out of the water, narrow escapes, sarcastic comments from our heroes and don’t forget the beautiful girl.
I’m beginning to enjoy this series even more than Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series.
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5 Comments:
Cussler is another author I've been wanting to read for some time. You know how I love mysteries. Looks like you've been enjoying some good mysteries this summer.
You say this is a good vacation book. Does that mean you're on vacation? Did you go someplace fun? Don't you want to tell us all about it?
More than Dirk Pitt? Wow! I may have to look into this series. I love the escape.
Booklogged: If you're willing to suspend plausibility and deal with what is pretty much a guy's view of the world and just read them for the fun swashbuckler type that they are, you'll enjoy them. Yes we were on vacation last week. Spent the whole week on the Oregon coast. Pictures tomorrow!!
Vickie: I think it's partly due to the fact that the Dirk Pitt series has moved on to the second generation. Escape is a perfect word for these. It think you'd like this series. It started out with Kurt and Joe being kind of a "Dirk and Al Light", but I've begun to really enjoy Kurt and Joe for themselves.
I really liked the one Cussler book I've read. This sounds like a fun one. What is the first book in the series?
Framed: I enjoy the fun adventure and escapism of Cussler's books. The first one in the Kurt Austin series is Serpent.
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