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The Navigator (Numa Files)
by: Clive Cussler

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780718149772
ISBN: 0718149777
Label: Michael Joseph
Manufacturer: Michael Joseph
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: March 27, 2008
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Studio: Michael Joseph
Sales Rank: 14010

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Entertaining
Clive Cussler is on the front cover and really no more else needs to be said. It's entertaining if not slightly ridiculous. This deviation from reality can be forgiven as it adds immesurably to the story and achieves that goal of tearing us from the daily routine and enriching our lives with a tale that rips along at 80 Knotts.
Entertainment aside, however, this NUMA files (Kurt Austin) adventure Didn't match the excitement of the Juan Cabrillo story Skeleton Coast.
A fan of Clive Cussler won't be dissapointed if they read without the preconception that Dirk Pitt is the alpha and the omega of Cussler's empire of literature.
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- The usual formula - just more tired than usual
With a Cussler novel, you know what you're going to get ... impossible links between the past and the present glory of good old America. This time we have a bull-necked villain of cartoon and cardboard type villainy; a baby-faced psychopathic assassin; a heroine of exotic features; sable hair and a strong streak of independence which doesn't stop her leaping into bed with our all-action hero. The theme naturally leads to the discovery of ancient treasures and the solving of equally ancient mysteries based upon the improbable fact that the Phoenicians travelled all the way to America to hide a precious artefact.

So if you like your adventure books to be written to a totally predictable formula (the villain keeps going on about the fires ... Read More:

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- Typically brilliant
Rough-and-tumble adventure at sea with high-tech; Clive Cussler owns the genre. the Oregon series that I've read have all been fun, and it was no surprise to find a fantastic story line and implausible derring-do. Just what I was hoping for!

The Oregon series features Juan Cabrillo and his Corporation. Cabrillo is an ex-CIA operative turned paramilitary mercenary. Along with his hand-picked team he takes assignments mainly from the CIA. Oregon is the Corporation's base ship, a rust bucket refitted for speed, maneuverability and anonymity.

This series is co-authored, in this case by Jack Du Brul, but it bears Cussler's stamp. I found it well written and fun, a four-star read. My main issues (besides predictability) were the ... Read More:

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- The Author is Back on Track with This One

Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.

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- Plenty of Action Built Around Locating Ancient Objects
The Navigator is a beach read . . . and a pretty entertaining one. Mix in a little history, add a few Biblical references, season with a maniac villain, fold in a little sexual byplay, and tilt the odds in unexpected ways and you've got The Navigator.

The ancient Phoenicians had a valuable secret that they decided to hide away, far from where anyone would find it. Later, Thomas Jefferson caught a whiff of the secret and decided to track it down. Both the Phoenicians and Jefferson left behind coded clues.

Into this labyrinth enter Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of NUMA when they encounter a high seas hijacking aimed at stealing a statue called the Navigator that had earlier been taken from the Baghdad museum during American invasion ... Read More:

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