Corsair
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- ISBN13: 9780399155390
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the Oregon and its crew face their largest challenge yet.
Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates . . . who look like something else.
When the U.S. secretary of state’s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libya’s new foreign minister has additional plans for the talks, plans that Cabrillo cannot let take place. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-ancient naval battle and the centuries-ancient Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.
“Readers will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their incredible machines,” writes Publishers Weekly of the Oregon Files series. And they’ll do it once again, with Corsair.
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Corsair
As this book is listed on Amazon, it sort of gives the impression that it is a Dirk Pitt series.
I was disappointed.
Check out your listing.
Thanks
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This was my first Clive Cussler, and the reason i selected it up was because it seemed to be based on a ship which is a theme i permanently find intriguing.
The book is a excellent read, you will not get too bored, but it is another thing to say that the reading is compelling throughout. The military jargon is very present and sometimes hard to follow, building the reader want to skip yet to be. Whereas i ongoing out enjoying the action scenes, at some point a lot of things ongoing seeming very conveniently placed. Lacking wanting to reveal too much of the plot, the excellent guys permanently got lucky whereas the terrible guys permanently had tough breaks.
What i was particularly miserable with, was the need to add the Indiana Jones-like sub-tale. If there were two tales to be told, they should have been two separate books. In this way, the plot ends up dragging a bit when the sub-tale has to be told.
All in all, a relatively simple read but not really worth the effort except maybe for die-hards of the series.
And having ongoing with this one, i don’t reflect i will bother reading another Clive Cussler book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Far-fetched escapes, heroes who seem to be constantly in danger but permanently get away, and a setting that was hard to know – that’s my impression of the latest Clive Cussler. This is SO far away from the early Dirk Pitt novels!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Though it has a few worthy battle passages, Corsair is poorly conceived and written — imagine Battlestar Galactica cracks the Da Vinci Code.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I am a casual fan of Cussler and have loved everything of his I have read up to this point. This one is a stinker. It was obviously written to be adapted into a screenplay and sorry to say it leans heavily on action and adventure and less, if any, on character development.
It is just a series of chase scenes and rescue scenes. One after another with small tale development in between. When the excellent guys get into what could be an appealing jam, that invites the reader to imagine the clever way it would be resolved, Cussler simply invents some ridiculous new equipment or capability never before seen on planet planet.
The hallmark of a excellent novel is that it is believable. This one is a far weep from that description. The ship the Corporation uses is too fantastic to be believed. The “PIG”, a terrestrial vehicle they use in the desert is impossible. Any one capability this vehicle has might be believable but add them all up and you have a monster truck on steroids that would, for one, not be affordable and for another, is just stupid.
Wait for the movie.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5