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| White Death (The Numa Files) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 170896
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425195457
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425195451
ASIN: 0425195457
Publication Date: May 25, 2004
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A ruthless corporation is about to take command of the seas.
This is a mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA team.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 Weird even by Cussler's standards December 26, 2008
Clive Cussler has never been one to bow to plausibility in his novels. Filled with strange situations, bizarre plots, and even more bizarre characters, their fantastic situations are what makes them fun. This work goes beyond Cussler's usual strangeness-far beyond.
The plot involves an evil tribe of Native Americans that run a fish company using a zeppelin lost over the Arctic in the 1930s and subsequently repaired to drop their mutant fish into the Atlantic, where they would eat the competition and give them full control over the world's fish. Several individual scenes match the main plot in ridiculousness, such as a dogsled chase through a large, snowless city.
The prose isn't any better or worse than any other Cussler novel. If you love weirdness, get this. If you don't, leave it.
White Death September 15, 2008
Like most of Cussler's work, this is a great read, and even better listen. I've been known to sit in my car after traveling, just to hear the last of a chapter. This was one of those.
My only gripe was the format of the C D, it only has one trak per disc. If you don't have a fast forward feature on your player, you have to listen over again to get to where you stopped. I've never run into this before.
 Mutant fish and swarthy henchmen abound February 23, 2008
Rarely have I read a novel with such abundant use of the word `swarthy'. This is the type of novel that should be so bad it's funny, but it isn't. It's just silly. An albino genius madman is intent on destroying the world's fish stocks by releasing killer mutant salmon into the wild, and it's up to our philosophy-reading, antique pistol-collecting, ever charming, always handsome hero Kurt Austin and his NUMA team to save the day. The story is just goofy. The dialogue is chock full of snappy one liners that are staples in action films: When someone is eaten by a mutant fish, one of the characters quips that `he has gone to pieces'.
The first Cussler novel I read was the recently released `The Chase'. I thought The Chase was pretty good - not great - but pretty good. Then I read Polar Shift, which was pretty silly, but not terrible. But White Death is awful. I think a novel like this would work better if it made fun of itself a little more. But it doesn't. It's too preposterous to be a good thriller, and takes itself too seriously to allow the reader to enjoy it as `over-the-top' campy fun.
White Death is not as bad as Patterson's `London Bridges' (arguably the worst novel ever published), but not by much.
 A step up from the Hardy Boys... November 11, 2007
and I like the Hardy Boys. This book is very light and easy to read. Frank and Joe Hardy had their cast of ever-loyal supporting characters, and so do Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. Even the descriptions and development of the characters have a "Hardy Boys" feel.
"White Death" is a great book to read if you need to get out of the real world for moment and just enjoy some adventurous fiction.
Another Gripping Adventure from the Author June 26, 2007
Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
Yes some of Clive Cussler's books are a little far fetched, to say the least, but surely that is not a negaative thing. Most people read to get away from their everyday life and yes, sometimes to go into a little world of their own. If an adventure story is a little far fetched, so what, it is all part of the enjoyment, after all the books are novels and not meant to be taken to seriously.
White Death is another adventure novel featuring Kurt Austin, leader of the NUMA Special Assignments Team and starts with a confrontation between an environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser, not an earth shattering confrontation in itself, but something that is going to escalate into something far more serious . . .
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