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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  adpaton | Sep 10, 2008 |  it is by far one of the best books i have ever read. it is about a group of mercenaries who is all organized into a corparation. and they all operate from a ship. it looks like an extremely old and falling apart cargo ship. but the entire ship bristles with 30 caliber machine guns, 20 millimeter gatlingguns, and a state of the art prupolsion system. in this book they are hired to sell weapons to african militias to track and aprehend them.but they end up stopping a group of ecoterrosts, rescuing a famous scientist, and finding billions of dalloars worth of diamonds. (  ) nm.fall07.a.dahlke | Mar 3, 2008 | Probably a better story than Dark Watch, Skeleton Coast still isn't as interesting as the Dirk Pitt novels. Several of the action sequences were exciting and the cameo at the end was fun (if too brief). However, there were several times when I wanted the story to delve more deeply into some of the ideas and plot avenues. Plus, I couldn't help but feeling that a particular sequence toward the end of the book was a complete ripoff of one of the fun action sequences from the film Sahara (a Dirk Pitt film). (  ) MSWallack | Sep 15, 2007 | While tracing an missing African leader, The Oregon crew finds treasure and enivormental terriorism make for an exciting adventure. Does however reminds this reader of an earlier story Sahara. ( ) readersweb | Dec 15, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0425211894, Paperback)The explosive New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series returns!Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre-who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry-a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:00 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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While African politics are flexible enough to fit into almost any scenario, the physical outline of the continent is pretty constant: we are expected to believe that thanks to a freak storm a ship that sank off the Skeleton Coast ended up 10 miles into the Namib Desert.
Even worse, Windhoek vanishes and Walvis Bay becomes the port for Swakopmund: inaccurate and unnecessary, which just about sums up the whole book. Imaginative and exciting yes, but too riddled with factual errors for the local market. (