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A review by ncrabb
Treasure by Clive Cussler
3.0
It’s been a while since I last lived the twisty high-energy life with my old book buddy Dirk Pitt. You can only stand so much swashbuckling, after all.
This is one of the books in the series written before the series seemed to sputter out and get sluggish. It imagines a scenario in which much of the treasure that was part of the library at Alexandria in Egypt was saved and stealthily squirreled away in the western hemisphere.
But wherever treasure is, there you will likely find terrorism and fanaticism. So it is with this book. Powerful megalomaniacs in Mexico and Egypt want world domination, and if they must implode the economy of the United States to do that, they will. It’s a high-stakes gamble on sea and land, and Dirk Pitt is once again the nation’s last best hope. Besides, he gets more girls than James T. Kirk ever did, and you can’t accuse any of Dirk Pitt’s conquests of being … well, … spacey.
This is just good summer reading fun—a kind of well-narrated brain candy that willslide through your head and it will be on to the next book without any kind of profound life-changing moments for you. But once in a while, it’s ok not to have profound life-changing moments in everything you read.
This is one of the books in the series written before the series seemed to sputter out and get sluggish. It imagines a scenario in which much of the treasure that was part of the library at Alexandria in Egypt was saved and stealthily squirreled away in the western hemisphere.
But wherever treasure is, there you will likely find terrorism and fanaticism. So it is with this book. Powerful megalomaniacs in Mexico and Egypt want world domination, and if they must implode the economy of the United States to do that, they will. It’s a high-stakes gamble on sea and land, and Dirk Pitt is once again the nation’s last best hope. Besides, he gets more girls than James T. Kirk ever did, and you can’t accuse any of Dirk Pitt’s conquests of being … well, … spacey.
This is just good summer reading fun—a kind of well-narrated brain candy that willslide through your head and it will be on to the next book without any kind of profound life-changing moments for you. But once in a while, it’s ok not to have profound life-changing moments in everything you read.