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Plague Ship (Oregon Files 5) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clive Cussler, Jack B. Du Brul
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 612
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.9
ISBN: 0718153448
EAN: 9780718153441
ASIN: 0718153448
Publication Date: June 26, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Unwanted gift - unopened. BCA edition. Please note - this book is smaller with smaller print.
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 Can't wait for the next one July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Plague ship was even better than Skeleton Coast, I felt restricted in only being able to give this book five stars.
Juan Cabrillo returns on the Oregon with his crew of mercenaries in yet another thrilling adventure.
A must read for Cussler Fans and adventure lovers alike.
 Great Escapes Entertain While the Epilogue Lands with an Embarrassing Thud July 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul, but if they don't do better in future books in the Oregon Files series they won't keep me as a reader.
The base story of Plague Ship could have only come from the imaginative mind of Clive Cussler. Jack Du Brul is a brilliant writer when it comes to describing difficult escapes.
Unfortunately, the base story overwhelmed Jack Du Brul so that the book is threadbare in character development, almost devoid of menace derived from the villain's plots, and missing obvious elements to make the book's premises more credible. I found myself wondering why the book was so poorly constructed except in the excellent escape sequences involving the crew of the Oregon.
The book opens with a historical sketch involving a Nazi reconnaissance plane looking for a convoy headed for Russia. I liked the opening. But in the epilogue, Du Brul fails to make enough of a connection between the two sections for the concept to work. I doubt if Cussler even read the two sections. A rookie editor could have made suggestions that would have helped.
From there the book picks up as the Oregon's crew seeks to verify for the CIA that the Russians are selling advanced torpedoes to the Iranians. It
is a grand adventure, and an even grander escape. The book drifts sideways on locating a derelict vessel littered with dead bodies. The book then dives downward quality-wise in describing a cult that favors reducing the world's population. Except for interruptions for interesting escapes, I found the rest of the book to be less and less interesting.
In giving the book three stars, I would say Plague Ship went from five stars down to dribbling along at two stars and ending at one star in the epilogue.
I wouldn't suggest that you avoid this book, but don't have very high expectations either.
Modern day thriller classic July 7, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This another of the winning Oregon files formula. Modern day pirates, mixed with hitech weaponry and Cussler classic swashbuckling story lines. Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living from working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the east - the Far East - to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance. They are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trawling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts - easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. Cabrillo suspects that the pirates have joined forces to take down the bigger ships. But when the Oregon confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy - a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.
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