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MAY 29, 2012
Classic Cussler: testosterone-driven action, over-the-horizon technical wizardry, beautiful and talented women and exotic... Full review >
NOV. 15, 2011
Vintage Cussler (Crescent Dawn, 2010, etc.), and just right for the armchair techie who likes his action nonstop and his... Full review >
NOV. 16, 2010
Cussler, writing with his son, once again blends history, technical knowledge, bombs, bullets and betrayal into cinematic... Full review >
NOV. 6, 2007
Thin characters, fat plot-holes, sluggish pacing and Cussler’s signature clunky prose. Full review >
JUNE 5, 2007
A small—very small—step up from Saturday morning adventure cartoons. Full review >
DEC. 1, 2003
Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous. Full review >
OCT. 7, 2003
Cussler’s first mate on the computer, Craig Dirgo, also copilot for The Sea-Hunters (1996) and The Sea-Hunters II: More True... Full review >
AUG. 30, 2005
Glacial pace, paper-thin characters, slap-dash prose and a probable warm welcome from a large and loyal audience. Full review >
JULY 1, 2003
Zestful heroics. Should rise to the top like one of Cussler’s real-life lost ships. Full review >
DEC. 1, 2004
A father-son action thriller penned by a father-son team that more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger. Don’t... Full review >
OCT. 5, 2004
The usual Cussler the Incredible, crammed with endless technological detail and ablaze with action. Full review >
JUNE 3, 2002
Fans may miss Dirk Pitt, but the story goes down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini. Full review >
OCT. 1, 1996
DEC. 2, 2002
A lively narrative slickly done: nothing wrong with that, but intelligent readers who like their history straight up may... Full review >
AUG. 13, 2001
Who is in top form here, easily tying together Viking relics, a Confederate submarine, and a lost ship running on seawater... Full review >
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