Vastly superior to Cussler's most recent novels!

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	• Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files (The Oregon Files) Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul Berkley Trade, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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Great Cussler

Fans of Clive Cussler, writing with Jack Dubrul, will love this latest Juan Cabrillo nail-biter. Great escapist fiction that will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very end. With the usual narrow escapes to the daring rescues, fans will not be disappointed.

Highly recommended.

Cussler returns to top form

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

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Vastly superior to Cussler's most recent novels!

I had grown weary of Cussler's mass produced adventure novels none matched the quality of his early work, but I really did enjoy this collaboration with Jack Du Brule. I like the character Juan Cabrillo, he is a great hero with the dash and style and humor. The book has plenty of mystery and twists and turns and even Dirk Pitt makes an appearance which was very cool! If you are an old time Cussler fan who have not been happy with his more recent efforts I recommend you give this one a try.

DuBrul and the Corporation rock!

As many of you know, Cussler write the outline for these books, and the other writer (Jack DuBrul) writes most of the book.

I really like the Corporation and Juan and this book is really intensified by Jack's input. Chek out his new book Havoc and the Philip Mercer series.

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