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Plague Ship (Oregon Files)
by: Clive Cussler

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154973
ISBN: 0399154973
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Sales Rank: 2015
Studio: Putnam Adult

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- One of Cussler's best novels
I have read many of Clive Cussler's novels, and I consider this to be one of his best. Since other reviewers have discussed the plot, I will comment on other aspects of the story.

The characters or larger than life, but not ridiculously so. The same is true of the Chairman's ship. What I liked most about the book was that the authors challenged the reader to think about real problems--over population, and provide information of historical events mostly unknown--Unit 731.

Unit 731 is real, and worse than described. Japanese chemical weapons and agents are still being discovered and removed in China. Medical information created by Unit 731, regardless of how horrible the methods used to obtain it, had value. At the end of WWII, the U.S. exempted one or more of senior Japanese officers from war crimes trials in order to obtain Unit 731's files. It took me a long time to finally reach the conclusion ... Read More

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- Plague ship
This was an excellent book - very fast reading - actually, so good, hard to put down

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- Plague Ship delivers action and adventure, even if it doesn't 'float my boat'
I need to qualify my review right at the start and admit I'm not really a fan of this type of novel: which is to say, high concept action adventure novels. I've read about four of the more recent Clive Cussler novels and this is probably the best one I've read. Even so, I found it only marginally entertaining.

Despite my middling thoughts about this novel, I think that if you are a fan of the genre, you'll enjoy it. It has all the ingredients: exotic locales, a bizarre evil plan, cartoonish villains, invincible heroes, daring escapes, heavily armed compounds, big explosions, and lots of henchmen. It's a big budget popcorn novel and if you're a fan, these novels can be fun in the same way that a blockbuster action movie is fun. The plot is little more than filler between action scenes.

So why did I read Plague Ship if I'm not a fan of action novels?

That's a fair question. ... Read More

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- Several fun adventures in one
I've read many Clive Cussler novels, but this is my first read of an "Oregon Files" book. I enjoyed it immensely. There are several short stories woven into the overall thread of the book. First (in the Prologue) we read a short story about a WWII German plane that crashes in northern Norway on a glacier. It's lone survivor finds an ancient boat that he thinks resembles Noah's Ark. This story gets wrapped up at the very end of the book. Next we have the present-day short-story about the Oregon's crew adventures in stealing two state-of-the-art torpedos from the Iranian Navy. Near the end of the wrap-up from this subplot, we get introduced to the main story line with two subthreads: a asthma patient who survives a plague on a cruise ship, and the kidnapping of an Oregon crew member's son. These threads both lead into the main story of how to stop the Responsivists from causing the sterility of half the world's population ... Read More

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