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Plague Ship (Oregon Files) | 
 enlarge | Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1792
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0399154973
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154973
ASIN: 0399154973
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Condition: average wear ex-library
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For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside but, on the inside, packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it-and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate-and as perilous-as any he has ever known, and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race ... plans he may already be too late to stop. Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas journey that proves once again that Cussler is ???just about the best storyteller in the business??? (New York Post).
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 Cussler Is Great October 11, 2008
I'm starting to like this series (The Oregon Files) as much as the original Dirk Pitt series. The Adventures of Juan Carbillo are filled with all of the stuff that has made Clive Cussler novels some of the best reading of our time.
 It's okay..... September 16, 2008
Having read every single Clive Cussler novels, I would tag this one as okay. The characters don't seem as meaty as they were in the first collaboration with Jack DuBrul. The escapes were even more outlandish then normal and I really didn't care who won in the end. I agree with the other reviewer who said that this book was about 200 pages too long.
 Another nice one September 9, 2008
Plague Ship (Oregon Files)
The book was the standard from Cussler, exciting and enjoyable, but Cussler is getting very predictable in his story line.
One of Cussler's best novels September 6, 2008
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 that doing so was the best option.
Stalin's Fist is based upon proposed technology. Biological warfare was a real threat during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the U.S. had large stockpiles of biological agents and delivery systems. Spreading a virus as described in the story is possible. I thought basing the story on an ancient ship was clever.
One commenter noticed that the chief terrorist's wife changed from Heidi to Susan in Chapter 33. Unless you have written a book, it is difficult to understand how this can happen. Sometimes the author or editor decides to change a character's name. Using global search and replace, changing the name is easy--unless you decided to replace a chapter with one from an earlier draft that had the old name. Ooops. I was ready to send the manuscript of my second novel to the publisher, after numerous rereads and reviews by others. I happen to notice that I had reversed the names of two characters in a chapter. I caught the mistake while looking for something else.
Plague Ship is a great adventure read. I am waiting for the authors' next one.
Lee Boyland author of two technothrillers dealing with current events: The Rings of Allah and Behold, an Ashen Horse.
Plague ship September 6, 2008
This was an excellent book - very fast reading - actually, so good, hard to put down
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