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Blue Gold by Clive Cussler
2.0

Blue Gold by Clive Cussler was required reading for my post-graduate studies unit 'Crime Fiction.' However, it took me a long time to complete reading it. I don't think it had to do with it being a bad book per se, but rather I had other books I wanted to read, and so it felt like a chore.

I can see the commercial appeal and why Clive Cussler generally sold quite well. Blue Gold looks at the morality of one transactional company holding the privatising right of freshwater supply. Water is such a precious commodity and is essential to sustaining life. It follows Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, NUMA scientists Paul and Gamay Trout and Dr Francesca Cabral who all are investigating or essential to the bigger crime that Gogstad is committing.

2.5 stars