โ Scribed by Clive Cussler
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A search for a relic that could change history?
A hunt for the truth that few will survive?
Fans of action-hero Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency expect imaginative plotting, but it never comes down the chute in this seventh NUMA Files novel from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after Polar Shift). Austin and his team are hunting icebergs when they chance upon a pirate raid aimed at stealing a priceless Phoenician antiquity launched by a stereotypical megalomaniacal villain, Viktor Baltazar, who believes he's a descendant of King Solomon. Baltazar and Austin joust continually (once, literally!) over the antique, which may be connected to the lost ark of the covenant, Thomas Jefferson and the suspicious death of Meriwether Lewis. Sequences including the attempted human sacrifice of the requisite gorgeous female U.N. investigator are all too predictable, and the writing ("The Filipino's lips curved like slices of liverwurst in a frying pan") is often less than Cussler's best. (June)
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Calculations seem to point to this being popular adventure novelist Cussler's thirty-fourth book, the seventh one written in collaboration with Kemprecos and the seventh one to chronicle the adventures of the NUMA Special Assignments Team. In his latest romp, Cussler is concerned with an ancient Phoenician statue called the Navigator, which was stolen from a Baghdad museum in 900 BCE. The compelling, well-organized plot--taken from a template that works--includes such disparate but ultimately workable elements as a foiled hijacking, a secret scientific project, pirates, a beautiful woman ("Her gown's scooped neckline displayed a decolletage that hovered between proper and sexy"), and the heroic machinations of the NUMA sleuths. Without exactly revealing the ending, suffice it to say--or, actually, suffice it to pose the question, Has the NUMA team ever failed in its quest for justice? Read it to make certain you've answered the question correctly. Cussler's multitude of fans will undoubtedly eat up this new novel just as they have previous ones. George Cohen
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved
Calc Series A (group): NUMA Files
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Calc Series Suffix : _
Title Parms B to H : - - - - - -
Calc Series Name : NUMA Files
Calc Force Series : .NUMA Files
Title First Parm : Navigator
Uncorruupted Title : Navigator
Enter Series Index : 7 of 10
Ebook Author Flood : Yes
Calc Series Genre : Ana
Record Notes : Hand Checked Serified 02 02 15
Calc Series Group : Serified
Words in Author Name: 2
Test Text Series Index: 7
Number of Formats : 1
Identifier : isbn:9780425222362
Title Parm A : Navigator
Enter New Series (Calced): Serified.NUMA Files.Ana.7 of 10._.ICBF
Series A : NUMA Files
Calc New Series : Serified.NUMA Files.Ana.7 of 10._
Series Parm B : 7
Series Parm A : NUMA Files
Custom Series : Serified.NUMA Files.Ana.7 of 10._.ICBF
Number of Authors : 1
Title Pre Pound : Navigator
Enter Series Suffix : _
Enter Series Index Part 2: of
Enter Series Index Part 1: 7
Title After First Parm: Navigator
Enter Series Index Part 3: 10
Calc Series Index : 7 of 10
Enter Series Name : NUMA Files
Uncomma Author : Clive Cussler
Enter Series Genre : Ana
Compare Author : eq
Enter Series Group : Serified
Calc Cover Quality : ICBF
Calc Title : ( Navigator
Test Compare Series : eq
Enter Series Cover Quality: ICBF
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Clive Cussler
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Cussler, Clive
Number of Authors : 1
Title Pre Parend : Navigator
Title Pre Colon : Navigator
Author Parm A : Clive Cussler
Number of Author Names: 2
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Navigator (The third book in the Time's Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter In 1492, as men of vision, weary of the strife of war, are drawn to the unknown West, an explorer seeks the funding for his voyagewhile a mysterious Weaver plots to unravel the strands of time and stop him. As William
Beschrijving Jaren geleden is er uit het museum in Bagdad een oud Fenicisch beeld gestolen dat bekendstaat als de Navigator, en sommigen zijn tot alles bereid om het in handen te krijgen. Het eerste slachtoffer is een handelaar in antiquiteiten die in koelen bloede wordt vermoord. De tweede man op h
**Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Teamsearch for an ancient Middle Eastern relic with secret ties to an American founding father in the #1 bestselling *New York Times*-bestselling series.** Years ago, an invaluable Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it
In this astonishing one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, meet Lexa, a Loric hacker whose unrivaled skills helped her narrowly escape her doomed planet, and who's been hiding on Earth ever since. Lexa was never part of the Elders' plan. She ha
Time travel adventure in which a boy joins a rebel uprising against a sinister enemy The Harsh in order to repair the fabric of time. Owen's ordinary life is turned upside-down the day he gets involved with the Resisters and their centuries-long feud with an ancient, evil race. The Harsh, with thei