Clive Cussler's Hellburner (Oregon Files)

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While the evildoer Hakobyan will “do business with the Devil himself if it turned a profit,” Cabrillo will never do anything against American interests.

I understand it is fiction but if you are going to use everyday items make sure you get their uses correct or at least believable. Previous installments integrated multiple plots so smoothly but this time around everything felt unrelated and disconnected. The Oregon seems nigh on invincible at this point, being equipped with a rail gun, Gatling guns, missiles, EMP cannons, super drones, NSA level audio and visual surveillance, and so many other bells and whistles that I can't see anything being a threat to them at this point.When the Oregon team uncover a ship full of contraband, smuggling turns out to be the tip of a very deep (and dark) iceberg. I've lost count of the times I read about Murph's heavy metal music tastes, Linda's hair color changes, Max's weight battles, Gomez's good looks, Juan's Casablanca inspired cabin and railroad safe. This will likely be my last Oregon Files read, which is a depressing thought because it really has been a fantastic ride.

The novel starts off with a murder, and with seven people trapped on an isolated Greek island lashed by a "wild, unpredictable Greek wind. Now, I don't know about you, but when I read the blurb of this book and saw a member of the Corporation was going to die, my attention was caught. The Oregon continues to be a wizard ship with all the latest tech features to go along with a brilliant, capable crew.

Here we have a crew member blinded in an attack, but I honestly didn't even care because I knew by the end of the book - just like Linda's deafness and Murph's paralysis in earlier books - that they'd be back to normal with no physical or psychological damage. I got up to 200 pages and just quit because I wasn't interested in the story because I knew what was going to happen. Because the Oregon's crew have just stumbled on the Pipeline - a vast criminal network stretching across the globe.

A Russian doomsday weapon and a huge LNG gas transport ship give the team of the Oregon all they can handle in this fast-paced book. The decision to let her go by herself when her father was released so out of place and an obviously stupid decision it just left me wondering WTF. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Smuggling weapons and drugs, this ruthless syndicate has been passed down the line from father to son. All the usual Oregon prerequisites are here - over the top action scenes, multiple countries, and sinister billionaire bad guys with world destruction plots.

It's entertaining, but there's only so many times I can read about the Oregon saving a city or country from annihilation with a few seconds left on the countdown clock through some crazy scheme Juan has cooked up. This stand in author for him has gone overboard with details of gun makes and models and mansplaining how things worked. The whole spirit of the team is just gone, all the characters felt so boring to me when usually I absolutely love reading about them. I can honestly say I was excited to read a book in my favorite series and I loved all the action, twists and turns through out the book.

S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. If they can get hold of a devastating weapon, they will enact a terrible revenge - and millions will die.Though he isn't present in every scene, he conveys each piece of the story leading up to the murder as if he were an omniscient narrator, capable of accessing every character's interior perspective. In "Hellburner," we have Juan Cabrillo and the Corporation racing to prevent Greek and Armenian criminal masterminds from devastating modern Turkey with a Russian Doomsday weapon! A massive Russian underwater bomb has gone missing and the Oregon must find and stop it before it goes off.