Paul Kemprecos

Mister Kemprecos has a great talent for creating characters the reader cares about, or dislikes and distrusts. This novel contains so much - intrigue, Nazi stolen art, innovative aviation, light romance - that it is hard to believe it was all included in 300 pages and without reader confusion! Wonderful descriptions of the Cape Cod area. The mystery is an interesting one that keeps the reader guessing while being treated to all the other aspects of the book. Fun and interesting read.
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An entertaining adventure with a secret Nazi trip over the Arctic, pirate treasure from 500 years ago and a psychotic bunch of Eskimos engaging in a diabolical plot to create Frankenfish.

This is the 3rd book of the long-running NUMA series starring Kurt Austin. It was another cracking adventure, with just barely enough plausibility to the villains plot to make the reader go along for the wild ride. This one involves a Russian Oligarch with megalomaniacal dreams of becoming the next tsar, while destroying the US Eastern seaboard with a sort of extreme methane explosions.

The unexpected uneasy alliance between Kurt and his old KGB nemesis, Petrov, is well done. The naval battle show more involving the USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) is great. I could do without the babe-of-the-book routine, but it was certainly fun. show less

St. Barts 2017 #2 - This continues the tradition of my friend and i both reading the same Cussler adventure on this vacation...this time it is #6 in the NUMA files series......ginormous mystery waves sinking ships, giant ocean whirlpools, and what is causing them and why brings together our team of ocean-going swashbucklers. WWII Nazi resistance movement, wartime refugee ship sinking, studies of the extinction of the wooly mammoth in Siberia and killer whales playing with kayakers all play show more into this one.....somehow. Certainly a healthy dose of unbelievability is present as usual, but the scenarios created and the visuals of foreign lands and historic memorabilia always make this fun. Oh, and surprise, surprise...part of this takes place on an island off of Maine.....unexpected islands always seem to creep into my island vacation reading pile. And can I also mention an exciting excape from evil in a 1906 replica Stanley Steamer??? Oh, yes....this has it all!! Thank you Kurt Austin and your colleagues at NUMA.....we'll see you here next year if not before.... show less