Skeleton Coast (The Oregon Files)
by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
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Author: Clive Cussler, Jack Du BrulEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-03
ISBN: 0425211894
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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- ISBN13: 9780425211892
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Book Reviews of Skeleton Coast (The Oregon Files)
Book Review: Cussler returns to top form
Summary: 5 Stars
Clive Cussler isn't afraid to take chances - or, for that matter, to go for a quick buck by hurriedly turning out a piece of trash, often with a co-writer. Happily, "Skeleton Coast" is one of Cussler's best works.
Written with Jack Du Brul, the story begins with a group of adventurers staggering across the desert to redezvous with a rescue ship. They are pursued by natives intent on rescuing stolen treasure and killing the interlopers.
The twist here is so good that I won't spoil it for you. Suffice it to say that this chase forms the basis for another adventure a hundred years later.
In years past, Cussler created Dirk Pitt, an oceanic adventurer. Ever see the 1938 Robin Hood movie with Erroll Flynn, one of the greatest adventure films ever made? Well, the late Mr. Flynn would have been the perfect cinematic Dirk Pitt: suave, resourceful, a killer with a smile. For whatever reason, Pitt has been more or less sidelined in Cussler novels and his place taken by Juan Cabrillo.
Cabrillo is a kind of corporatized brigand. He is the boss of the Corporation, a specialized nautical outfit that handles jobs governments and corporations find too sensitive or too difficult for normal channels. Cabrillo operates the Oregon, a super-duper combination spy and assault ship.
The Oregon's crew of former special forces and intelligence operatives can do just about anything (and in a Cussler novel, they generally do). The ship itself is a miracle of technology with its electro-magnetic (and quite imaginary) propulsion system.
After the prologue, the story opens with Cabrillo and the Oregon operating in Africa, helping (at the behest of the CIA) a local government fight off a rebel movement.
A trademark of a good Cussler novel is action: action that never stops.
"Skeleton Coast" is one of the best Cussler novels in a while. The action simply doesn't stop. Hyperbolic plots are a Cussler trademark. Even in his less than prime efforts, Cussler's writing is strong enough to carry you over the plot improbabilities. In this one, the plot is pretty tight and the tension, as a result, is higher than usual. Cabrillo and crew get into one tight spot after another, but all it takes is great technology, superior intellect and a capacity to survive what would kill normal people and you triumph in the end.
This story involves fanatical environmentalists operating on the theory that the world must be destroyed before it can be saved, multi-billionaires with a few psychological problems, desert warriors, kidnappings, double-dealing, lost treasures, beautiful women, a cowardly yuppie, tough oil drilling roughnecks and a lot more.
It's sheer adventure from page 1 through page 373 and it is also Cussler at his very best. If you like chest-pounding, racing-pulse techno-adventure, you'll very much like "Skeleton Coast".
Jerry
Summary of Skeleton Coast (The Oregon Files)
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.
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