A review by johnmarlowe
Crescent Dawn by Scott Brick, Dirk Cussler, Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler

2.0

This was actually a 2.5 rating. Oh no, another Clive Cussler. I keep saying that this is the last. These books are not nearly as interesting as when they were Clive only, and were from his beginning as a writer of adventure/treasure stories. In this one, I suspect Clive is continuing to pass the torch to his son Dirk, who I bet wrote it. So, a Roman galley was carrying something incredibly historically significant, and was being chased by pirates in 400AD or so. Cut to the present where the Pitt family is doing various archeological things that eventually relate to the beginning of the book. Ho hum. How many escape from deaths can there be in a book? The Cusslers also make their main characters a little too superman-ish, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. Don't get me wrong. I cut my reading teeth on the original Clive Cussler books and could not wait for the next one to come out. It's just that I've probably read too many of them now, and when you get down to it, they're all the same (ducking from Clive Cussler fans throwing pillows).