I haven’t provided too many reviews in the club. Most of my recent readings have been work related and I wouldn’t want to bore everyone with that stuff! I took a break and read a couple of Clive Cussler books, Plague Ship and The Chase. I loved The Chase. It starts in the 1950s with a salvage team pulling a train out of Flathead Lake in Montana. We then go back to 1906 to a series of bank robberies with a cunning and brutal thief. Authorities enlist the assistance of Detective Isaac Bell to bring in the “Butcher Bandit”. Bell tracks the bandit all across the west with stops in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Bisbee, AZ before getting to San Francisco. He finds that apprehending the thief is much harder than simply identifying him.
Plague Ship is the 5th in the Oregon series. East Coast Don had correctly equated another book in the series, Golden Buddha, to an A-Team episode. Plague Ship is much better, but still has some of those elements. The team of socially-conscious mercenaries aboard the Oregon (high-tech command center disguised as dilapidated freighter) starts this story stealing nuclear submarine missiles from the Iranians. As they depart, they come across a drifting cruise ship and find almost all the passengers are dead. They rescue the one survivor just before the ship explodes. I’m not giving anything away here as there’s a big picture of a ship exploding on the cover of the book!!! The team finds this incident is only a small piece of a cult’s plan to change the future.
I give The Chase top marks and highly recommend it. Plague Ship was also very entertaining. It’s a fairly predictable genre, but still enjoyable for a long plane ride.
Chris Bo in Austin
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