Book Review - Polar Shift by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
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Kurt Austin is back in the latest installment by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos... Polar Shift. It's a nice "mind candy" bit of diversion...
Austin and the NUMA crew are once again pulled into breaking up a plot that threatens to destroy the earth. A group of anarchists (well-funded ones) have discovered a way to force a polar shift of the magnetic north and south pole. By doing so, they hope to destroy the world's navigation and communication infrastructure, allowing their heavily shielded replacements to survive as the only game in town. The only thing that can stop them is a young woman who is the granddaughter of the original scientist who learned about the shift decades. She doesn't know that she holds the key to reversing the polarity, but NUMA and Austin have to find her before the others get there first...
I didn't expect blockbuster material here, just a fun read. And basically that's what I got. The Austin series isn't quite as frenetic a pace as the Dirk Pitt series, nor is the dialog between Austin and his sidekick quite as entertaining. Still, it was a book I enjoyed picking up each evening before I went to bed. I'm not sure I would have wanted to pay $27 for it, but as a library book it was fine.
Kurt Austin is back in the latest installment by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos... Polar Shift. It's a nice "mind candy" bit of diversion...
Austin and the NUMA crew are once again pulled into breaking up a plot that threatens to destroy the earth. A group of anarchists (well-funded ones) have discovered a way to force a polar shift of the magnetic north and south pole. By doing so, they hope to destroy the world's navigation and communication infrastructure, allowing their heavily shielded replacements to survive as the only game in town. The only thing that can stop them is a young woman who is the granddaughter of the original scientist who learned about the shift decades. She doesn't know that she holds the key to reversing the polarity, but NUMA and Austin have to find her before the others get there first...
I didn't expect blockbuster material here, just a fun read. And basically that's what I got. The Austin series isn't quite as frenetic a pace as the Dirk Pitt series, nor is the dialog between Austin and his sidekick quite as entertaining. Still, it was a book I enjoyed picking up each evening before I went to bed. I'm not sure I would have wanted to pay $27 for it, but as a library book it was fine.
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