Fetch The Storm (NUMA Files, #10) Prepared By Clive Cussler Accessible In Publication

storm is lang niet het eerste boek van Cussler dat ik gelezen heb, maar ik kan me niet heugen eerder een verhaal te hebben gelezen waarbij Kurt Austin de hoofdrol speelde.
Hoewel er al heel wat avonturen aan dit verhaal zijn voorafgegaan, was dit niet storend tijdens het lezen, Het verhaal staat in principe helemaal op zichzelf,

Cussler en Brown openen het verhaal met twee hoofdstukken die zich tientallen jaren voor de gewone verhaallijn afspelen, De gebeurtenissen zijn spannend beschreven en trekken je gelijk het verhaal in, Wel merkte ik dat ik erg bleef zoeken naar een verband tussen de eerste bladzijdes en de rest van het verhaal, Vrij laat werd hierop teruggegrepen, waardoor het misschien niet echt nodig was geweest om de gebeurtenis die daaraan voorafging helemaal uit te schrijven.

De spanningsboog verslapt gedurende het verhaal nauwelijks en nergens is te merken dat dit verhaal door twee personen is geschreven, De auteurs houden er lekker de vaart in, Technische details slaan ze daarbij niet over, Hoewel ik dat enerzijds altijd wel een verrijking vind zo leer je nog iets nieuws krijg ik soms ook het gevoel dat de auteurs duidelijk willen maken dat ze een goede research hebben gedaan.
Op sommige plaatsen is het een beetje afleidend,

Het plot steekt knap in elkaar, al zijn niet alle wendingen overtuigend, Voorspelbaar is het verhaal echter niet, Steeds opnieuw komen de personages in situaties waarbij het bijna niet benarder kan, Dat de geloofwaardigheid dan een beetje ten koste gaat van de originaliteit, moet je als lezer maar even voor lief nemen, Vermakelijk en spannend blijft het boek wel,

Waar het verhaal een beetje aan schort, is de uitwerking van de personages, De hoofdpersonages reageren bijna overal hetzelfde op en hebben zelfs dezelfde humor, Hun gedrag, de gedachten en de humor zijn tevens terug te vinden in de Dirk Pitt boeken van dezelfde schrijver, waardoor je een beetje het idee krijgt dat uitsluitend hetzelfde type mensen bij NUMA werkt.
Dat vind ik jammer, de bijpersonages zijn hierdoor interessanter en verrassender dan de hoofdpersonages,

Al met al is het weer een fijne, avontuurlijke thriller van Cussler en Brown, Hoewel de personages wat mij betreft nog wel wat meer uitgediept hadden mogen worden, neemt dat niet weg dat het verhaal een origineel plot heeft en je als lezer door het boek heen raast.
Love each Cussler book I read, So much fun. As a long running fan of Clive Cussler, including both his fiction and nonfiction, it has been a real shame to watch the dilution of the Cussler name with inferior cowriters.
The Storm, unfortunately, continues the downward trend,

It is the standard Cussler adventure template with a few expected twists and cursory nod to modern technology and ecological issues.
However, the series is clearly missing the loving Cussler prose that characterised the Pitt series,

It has all of the ingredients but without the Grandmaster of Adventure at the helm it is just a clone of his earlier work.
Austin and Zavala have some OKish banter as they globetrot from one perilous pursuit to the next, impervious to pain and the elements but you can never shake the feeling they are Pitt and Giordino lite.


The Storm is enjoyable for a rainy Sunday or killing time at the airport but if you are expecting the highs of Inca Gold or Sahara you will be disappointed.
Which makes me a little bit sad, Cussler is an oldschool adventurer who lived it and wrote it, surviving on little more than good baloney, dreams, perseverance and a cunning knack for risk taking.
Any readers would do well to delve into his early work,

Recommended for fans only, In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them.
But it is not oil, Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames.


A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean, What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale.
It will kill millions and it has already begun,

Filled with the boundless invention unique to Clive Cussler, this is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.
Better than the last one I read, Another action packed adventure for Kurt and the gang, Always fun to see how past and present entertwine, Clive Cussler and Graham Brown have written another thrilling adventure with Kurt Austin as the main character,
I enjoyed reading his fastpaced adventure stories, "The Storm" fits the bill perfectly, The story is definitely fastpaced and has lots of plot twists along the way, The characters are welldeveloped and the story rises to the highest point throughout,
While I did feel that the storm itself could have been used to present a more direct threat it still serves its purpose.

I recommend "The Storm" very highly, Fans of action/adventure stories will surely enjoy it, Great and exciting adventure. We expect to fly back to North Texas from Luxor on our upcoming cruise from the Indian Ocean to the Red sea so perhaps we will be able to view the Aswan dam which is a focus point of this novel.

I have learned as a result of this reading that it may be possible for me to escape from being entrapped in a dry well if I am fortunate to have a rubber tire to my back by crab walking up the wall and flexing my six pack abdominal muscles! Another adventure with Jurt Austin and the NUMA crew as they work the thwart an attempt to change the ocean temperature which would change the wind and where the rains would fall.
The method was to manufacture nano machines that would change the reflectivity of the ocean Indianto change the water temperature, The nanobots were controlled by radio and could be directed to attack and devour living matter and reproduce themselves, CUssler a it again with a rapid fire action adventure and a quick read, Same old Cussler formula with lots of diabolical scheming and destruction by a maniac, Outlandish and a bit too much for my taste without enough emphasis on a particular underutilized island group,ofA little fluffy, especially the tech, and the de rigor if I am using a dead language correctly "find a historically plausible shipwreck and exploit it to rescue daring heroes from impossible situation" that Mr.
Cussler brings to the game, Enjoyed a couple of plot twists, The residents of Pritchard's Island are quite charming, but also quite stereotyped, so take them with a grain of salt, An everything but the kitchen sink approach to adventure writing that affably ignores plausibility in favor of farfetched fun and action sequences.
In other words, a Beach Book for Boys! The Storm
By Clive Cussler and Graham Brown

This was my first book from the authors Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, and this was one of those books I bought randomly having no context of the genre, and didn't once regret!
I had not tried Adventure books before, but once I finished this one, I planned to give all the others a try, this one was that great :D

Although this is fictional, I'm not even sure if half the adventurous stuff performed could be done in reality, but nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed them all.
And even the characters :'D

How I felt throughout the entire adventure has been written sitelinkhere, If you'd like to read :

So yeah, this book was one roller coaster ride for me, A proper adventurous one I thoroughly enjoyed every bit,
So much had happened only for me to realize I'm only half way through!
Kurt and Joe's sense of humour throughout their adventures made it even more enjoyable.

Will be looking forward to embarking many such adventures with them :'

Quote from the book:

"Denial is my favourite coping mechanism.
When you have a billion dollars, problems have a way of disappearing if you ignore them long enough"
Very interesting, I got it at the beginning, got a tiny bit lost and figured it out towards the end!! Nederlandse paperback again a Adventure with Kurt and Joe.
NUMA in the center of the spill, and a bad Guy who was made bad, Little robots you should read it for yourself, this is a very good book, always something happening. I have to admit there is something comforting in reading a Cussler book, Its like hanging out with an old friend you only see a couple of times a year, You know how the conversation will go, what beers he/she will drink and when you're done, you're done, No awkward good byes. Just a simple "see you next time, "

The Storm is no exception, Cussler has made a career of a tried and true formula going back three decades and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.


Strong characters escaping implausible situtations Check, Globe threatening bad guy with a doomsday device and a secret hideout Check, Tons of action and adventure Check,

Sometimes when I read a Cussler book I feel as though I'm reading a novelization of a "Mad Libs" book.
"The bad guy is insert ethnicity here who has been slighted by insert government body or other organization here and is planning to blackmail the world by using a insert pseudoscientific principle here.
. . " and so on.

BUT, it works, Maybe I've got

a soft spot or an addiction since I've been reading his books since I wasyears old, but I'm always satisfied by his books.
IMHO, his books are the ultimate summer beach read,

No earthshattering prose, deep/complex characters or anything else, Just a quick, very fun read, I can't decide who I like the best, . . Kurt Austin, Isaac Bell, Dirk Pitt, . . if I HAD to say I guess I'd go with Dirk, but I love all of Cussler's characters, His NUMA Files are pretty good, this is only the second one I've read but both were fabulous, It reminded me a bit of the third SpiderMan with Tony Maguire, with the weird black substance, except in this is was micromachines.
The idea was cool with the robots and stuff and seemed kind of SciFi for Cussler, he usually tends to stick to historical stuff, which there was a bit of, but with Kurt he sometimes puts a little more technology.
I didn't quite understand how machines could reproduce and consume like these did, but hey, it's fiction, Doesn't have to be believable,
The fact that Dirk is in it briefly makes me happy, I don't think I like Kurt and Joe quite as much as I like Dirk and Al, but I still love them.
Clive Cussler doing what he does best, a fantastic riveting read which I completed in one sitting, This being about a wealthy power mad Yemeni who is set on controlling the weather at the beck and call of the highest bidder, but he did not reckon on Kurt and Joe and their team, a reclusive billionaire living on a manmade island and a rag tag band of men from a Acific Island, and the occasional appearance of Dirk Pitt was good.
Loved it waiting for the next but really looking forward to the new Dirk Pitt out in November :,