Dark Watch [Oregon Files 3]

✍ Scribed by Clive Cussler; Jack B. Du Brul; Jack Du Brul

• Book ID: 107027248
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 218 KB
• Series: Oregon Files 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780425205594

✦ Synopsis

From Booklist

Cussler's back, this time with coauthor Dubrul. For those readers who are still counting, it's Cussler's twenty-eighth book. This one involves the clandestine spy ship Oregon, whose crew--led by one Juan Cabrillo--work for what Cussler describes as ''high-powered Western interests.'' Cabrillo's newest employers are a consortium of Japanese shipping tycoons who are being threatened by pirates. The plot includes commercial freighters that are disappearing, missiles that North Korea is selling to Syria, bad guys planting a bomb on a ship that the U.S. wants to destroy, the sinking of a research vessel, covert operations from any number of nations, and the threat of diseases such as typhoid and cholera that could run rampant--and that's just the first 100 pages. These are a few trite lines (''We can't see diddly,'' for example) and an ending that doesn't come as a surprise, but Cussler's countless fans won't care. George Cohen
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Review

''Readers will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines.''

• Publishers Weekly (Publisher's Weekly )