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The Kurt Austin stories just don't hold my interest the way that the Dirk Pitt stories do. Fire Ice was okay, but it was too predictable. Austen's "special assignments team" has virtually nothing to do (especially Gamay Trout...why was she even in this book?). (

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MSWallack | Jan 27, 2008 |

BORING. Kurt Austin is a flat character who is totally unnecessary in these stories. Another case of a character with too many skills and not enough weaknesses. And does he have to sleep with every beautiful woman in the stories? (

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writeingthings | Aug 22, 2007 |

Adventure/Thriller, Fun to listen to on tape or cd (

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The dense fog rolled into the harbor late in the afternoon, nudged by a sudden change in wind direction.

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In Serpent, Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium in Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. In previous encounters, Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala have battled eco-extortionists and mad empire builders-but they have never faced a menace like the one before them now.

In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon has proclaimed himself czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already shaky Russian government-and U.S. opposition doesn't bother him one bit. A little crisis of their own should distract the Americans for a while, and he knows just the thing. . . .

Filled with all the hair-raising action and endless imagination that are Cussler's hallmarks, Fire Ice is a dazzling thriller from the grandmaster of adventure fiction.

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