Like others in The NUMA Files series, this is the second time I’ve returned to this book. It’s not so much that I dislike Kurt Austin and Joe Zavalla, but that (as copycats of Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino) they’re … Continue reading
As I plow my way through Clive Cussler‘s entire bibliography, I inevitably must come across some easily-forgotten stories from The NUMA Files series for a second time. White Death, the story of inbred Eskimos who crave to ruin world fisheries … Continue reading
The second installment to Cussler’s pretty-much-Dirk-Pitt-but-not-Dirk-Pitt series, The NUMA Files, is Blue Gold, a story with a normalish plot that’s just bedazzled with weirdness. I agree with King Solomon that “there’s nothing new under the sun,” yet at the same … Continue reading
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I’ve almost exhausted my Clive Cussler library but still have a few missed novels which I’ve read before but have never reviewed. Surprisingly, this first book in the NUMA Files series is one I’d missed! Regarding the series as a whole, … Continue reading
Who would have guessed that even Clive Cussler would ride the Mayan Calendar wave of the early 2010s! At least that’s what it appeared he was doing by publishing The Mayan Secrets in 2013. Instead of taking his treasure-hunting couple, … Continue reading
Following an all but frozen trail that leads from the United States to the Korean DMZ to South Africa, Kurt Austin searches desperately for a former fiancé of his, a woman who’s supposed to be dead. The trouble is, Kurt … Continue reading
“Kurt tended toward overkill. If a small hammer could do the job, a sledgehammer would leave no doubt.” (Chapter 45) So far as I can tell, this is the 46th Clive Cussler novel I’ve read. Hooray for me. While it’s … Continue reading
In my learned estimation, The Storm is Clive Cussler‘s most science-fiction novel since 1986, when he released Dirk Pitt’s 8th novel, Cyclops, and sent Pitt to a gunfight on the moon. And while I love adventure and unique plots, I … Continue reading
“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned a few things. One of them is: you get what you paid for, [Kurt]. You and Joe are like one of my cars—expensive, bad for the environment, and often a pain in the backside. … Continue reading
Although I have been trying to read each of Clive Cussler’s series in order and am now much later in The NUMA Files than Fire Ice (Book 3 in the series), I don’t always get to writing my reviews while … Continue reading
