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Maybe he could have; I have read military biographies and military history books that have described military personnel undergoing crazy extreme wounds and surviving, so anything is possible, I guess. Hoping to help a fellow former agent find her son at his boss’s request, the plot slowly takes us through a grand conspiracy, hoping to start a war with the US by firing a hypersonic missile at an aircraft carrier in the Gulf.

Mike Maden adroitly takes over the reins in his second Oregon Files written under Clive Cusslers name. Another story line is our following of the lead doctor ventured into the jungle to locate a friend of hers to deliver pharmaceuticals to her project involving native people.This story had the added pressure of trying to find a hypersonic missile which was stolen from India. When Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon, is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. He gets beaten badly, has some broken ribs as well as other bruised bones and tissue, but ends up leading a mission. The characters feel developed out and we worry for them, even when we sense that they are in danger. While the prior books focused on the ship, its crew and their clandestine operations, this one spends little time on the ship, little time developing the character of the crew, and was not engaging.

Like millions of others, I first became a Tom Clancy fan after reading The Hunt for Red October, and began my published fiction career in the same techno-thriller genre, starting with DRONE and the sequels, BLUE WARRIOR, DRONE COMMAND and DRONE THREAT.I enjoy the stories where the Oregon people are in control, we get some character development, and the enemies have no idea what they are dealing with (and are doing the best they can) because, well, they have no idea this ship and crew exists. Although Clive Cussler's novels were pretty generic, they were plotted out well, with almost every situation being necessary to the plot. Juan Cabrillo and his gang, the Corporation on their super-ship, the Oregon are back at adventures again. Juan Carrillo and his team of high paid mercenaries are tasked to find the missing brother of an associate that has been reported serving time in an overseas high security prison. I thought the bad guys in this novel did exceptionally well against the Oregon crew even though they really knew nothing about them.

While CRISPR has been in the news for a while, this was the first book I've read that uses it as part of the story. In their quest to stop him, Cabrillo's crew are about to meet their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. e. even though this is such a sophisticated ship, there is something in each new novel that will sink it), Juan goes solo on missions (which makes no sense, considering the level of talent of the crew and the myriad of injuries he sustains and miraculously can continue to function through the rest of the novel), and, oh yes, he also gets captured somehow in the middle. In this book, we get the intro chapter of the book to discover some of Maurice's earlier military history before he retired from the British Navy and joined Juan Cabrillo's crew. I enjoyed the blending of current technological levels with advanced theories and advanced levels of technology to extrapolate how things might turn out if such technology was more prevalent today.When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. As expected, the heroic lead character Juan Cabrillo and his familiar loyal and brave crew members are present to provide the exciting action.

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