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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Used paperback, has been read several times, good reading book (  )rudygunn | Mar 20, 2009 |   Four sentences, pulled at random from different chapters, should tell you all you need to know: "Now as their objective stood before them it became obvious that unlike the others towns and cities they had sacked, this one would not fall without a long and lengthy campaign." "'You ain’t gonna believe this,' he answered in a Georgia accent, 'but the last dropwindsonde profiling system I released recorded horizontal wind speeds of up to two hundred and twenty miles an hour as it fell through the storm toward the sea.'” "Exotically designed minibuses with luxurious interiors and painted lavender pulled up to the aircraft to accommodate the passengers." "Seemingly adhered to the marble slab, he could not move nor turn his head." Talk about phoning in your work . . . sweet Jesus! Apparently, best-selling author™ Clive Cussler can insult readers and desecrate the English language with impunity, so long as he keeps making money for his publisher. Thank God I found this book in a hospital waiting room and didn’t actually pay for it. (  )pwoodford | Jan 23, 2009 | You read the Dirk Pitt novels to take part in the superham adventures and almost disappointed when the chapter started with the story line involving his kids. Dirk & his mate Al are in imposible situations but as usual survive in destroying Spectres tunnels in Nicaruaga which would have led to enormous climate change. The kids find artrfacts in the North Atlantic which result from Odysseus journey following the siege of Troy. Dirk,s escapades still allow you to escape reality. (  )wyn | Oct 15, 2008 | I still read Cussler's books out of a sense of nostalgia, though it's been a long time since one's been worth reading on its own merits. This one, which sort of mixes The Odyssey and climate change, lowers his batting average even more. ( )wanack | Jun 28, 2008 | an old-fashioned adventure story featuring Dirk Pitt, naval explorer and scientist. A giant tsunami is racing toward a luxury resort and Dirk races to save his own children and the rest of the tourists. The tsunami is also dredging up amazing artifacts which may point to some unknown history around the ancient city of Troy. ( )mamasigs126 | May 8, 2008 | 0.189 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0425199320, Mass Market Paperback)Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet.In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime. There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. The twins are working in a NUMA(r) underwater enclosure, trying to determine its origin, when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something strange and beautiful and ancient; and the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight not only for them but also for a luxurious floating resort hotel square in its path. The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable, and, desperately, Pitt, Al Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA(r) crew rush to the rescue, but what they find in the storm's wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the world, and the brown tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon, its work will be complete-and the world will be a very different place. Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is already a very different place... Filled with breathtaking action and suspense, Trojan Odyssey is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:58 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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