Gather The Eye Of Heaven (Fargo Adventure, #6) Engineered By Clive Cussler Readable In Version

been reading Cussler books for years and never had one that I really disliked, There have been a few in which his co writer got too bogged down in the details, but usually the story won out in the end.


This book however I considered rating it a one star for Dislike however I do like the Fargo Characters so I gave it astar out of fan loyalty.


I was very disappointed in this book, It took me longer to finish than usual and at times reading it felt like a chore,

Below are spoilers,

The plot seemed very weak at best,

The Cuba story line felt like filler material and the trip to Laos was simply a waste of reading time, The Kendra red herring felt contrived from the get go and about half way the co writer seemed to be bored with himself,

If this was a person's first Fargo book, they'd be very confused about Janus and his motivation for everything, There was no explanation for how he came to meet up with them in the early part of the story,

At the end of the storyyears into the Future that whole ''Ark of the Covenant'' prank that Sam planned to play on Janus yawn.


The female who betrayed them in the final chapters after helping them all along, That was too obvious and I was not shocked at all, It felt like the typical betrayal from the old Doc Savage Pulps,

Zolton is a great addition to the series, yet he just seems to be filler material, I do wish he'd become more integral to the story.
His scenes were boring and felt unnecessary, Yeah we get it, they have a dog, pat him on the head, next scene, This is an animal with smarts and skills, How is he not traveling with them

To digress to the Cuba scenes I remember thinking to myself that it just felt like an odd story line and the whole ''we need to break into a Cuban Fort and take pictures then escape'' was too weird.
Too much for what little it really added to the story,
I enjoyed this book it was a fun, fast, light read, It moved at a pretty fast clip considering the amount of "globetrotting" that goes in which the Fargos go from Spain to Baffin Island in Canada to Mexico to Cuba to Laos and back to Cuba again.
I have read one other book, but that was years ago, so it was interesting to meet the main characters again as I remembered nothing about them previously.
They have a "huge" cast of characters, too well, people who work for them,

Some random thoughts about the book, I could not figureut if Kendra was truly "on the take" for Janus Benedict or not it seemed like the authors were writing her that way at first, but then there was a "big reveal" at the end of the book that made me wonder if it was all "misdirection" the big reveal being that this pendant that Remi was given and loved to wear was actually a tracking device.
I about fell out of my chair laughing in surprise at that one, I did figure that either Antonio or Mirabela or even both were in cahoots with Janus and his brother Reginald it turns out that it was just Mirabela.
There was a lot of misdirection throughout the book as the authors try to write various characters as being spies for Janus the only time it really worked for me was in relation to Antonio and his sister other than those two, I cannot say how well it was written because there is not enough gray to raise suspicions and especially not really enough to support accusations against anybody.


I enjoyed the theory that the Vikings had been in touch with the Totlecs of preColumbian Mexico, That was pretty cool I also enjoyed the descriptions of the temples and dig sites and whatnot in the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan in Mexico.
It sound liked it would be a phenomenal place to visit one day if it were possible for me to do so,

Sam and Remi's "journey" to find Sam's old friend Lazlo was fun, too, even if it was a bit "short" they found him pretty quickly when it was all said and done, to be honest I had the impression it was going to be more difficult than it was, especially with the portents implying doom for the man.
I was chuckling at the various bribes that Sam had to pay in order to find his friend, but it was cool how he stood by his friend despite his wife's deprecations and bad feelings otherwise.
She came to appreciate Lazlo and his knowledge by the end of the book where she was singing a different tune about him!

I thought it was hilarious how the excitement of the siblings immediately cooled after one of the tombs was found.
They were all gungho and ready to work with the Fargos until the tomb was found, and then immediately after they became distant, cool, and reticent towards them until it was revealed the "ultimate treasure" the Eye of Heaven was probably saved somewhere else.
It was just a funny moment for me in the book,

I was mildly annoyed with how the authors used Antonio and Mirabela.
They write the siblings as being possible "threats" to the Fargo's marriage, I never took Mirabela to be regularly flirting with Sam, myself, but the writers continually have Remi getting jealous about something or other regarding Mirabela when she's around Sam.
It was annoying perhaps if the authors had included some kind of intent on the part of Mirabela to be trying to seduce Sam As it was, Remi's jealousy seemed forced and poorly written if she was truly as jealous as she was written to be as it seemed to "increase" over time and she was constantly looking for affirmation from Sam that he was interested in Remi and Remi only, then I think she would have had stronger words with and for Sam regarding Mirabela.
As it was, she comes across as petty and insecure not the type of woman she is presented as being before they meet Mirabela and not how she acts when Mirabela is not around.
It got kinda annoying after a while, the way it felt like she was constantly seeking reassurance from Sam that Sam still loved her and planned to remain faithful to her and her alone.
And then you have Sam getting a little jealous of some of Remi's comments about Antonio and some of the attention Antonio gives his wife.
It was weird it felt like the authors were trying to imply adultery was a strong possibility but nothing ever went anywhere, Not that I applaud adultery or any kind of behavior like that, but it was just weirdly poorly badly written, Like how it is said that Sam feels a jolt of current between him and Mirabela when they shake hands upon their first meeting, but then nothing ever comes of it granted, Sam has eyes only for his

wife and is written as being oblivious to Mirabela's "charms" and "flirting" that never felt like seduction in any way.
You have that brief moment of "attraction" and then nothing ever happens again or is mentioned about it, Sam is not even written as enjoying any of Mirabela's attention she supposedly gives him, Honestly, I would have thought Sam might have become concerned about the comments that Lazlo kept making to his wife and then how Remi turned around and started showering Lazlo with attention, compliments, and flowery remarks.
That was more of a "concern" to me and how Sam pretty much ignored it than anything Remi said about Antonio, I could see something having sparked between Lazlo and Remi, on the one hand, because of Remi's supposed jealousy and insecurities regarding Mirabela and Sam "not quite getting it" followed by the attention she was receiving from Lazlo.


Also, I could not believe how much of the book was focused on food and alcoholic beverages, It was crazy! I mean, I enjoyed some of the researching that was done that resulted in their discussing different theories and ideas that was pretty cool.
But one whole chapter seemed devoted to discussing what Sam and Remi ate for breakfast, then lunch, followed by dinner, I realize that specific chapter probably had more "action" going on than I remember, but that is what it felt like between the food, the drinking, and even visits to hotel spas, there were times I wondered what kind of book I was reading was it book about a treasure hunt or a book about exotic gourmet meals and drinks with a sidestory involving a search for treasure I think Cussler must really enjoy writing about different meals that he enjoys and wants to share that enjoyment with his readers as he really went "overboard" in describing a sevencourse meal that the Fargos ate that I cared not a whit about and wondered where they found the room for all that food!.


It as also weird how the Fargos are trying to figure out who the spy is in their ranks, and then once it is revealed that Remi was wearing a tracking device the whole time, nothing is ever said about spies in their ranks again.
Like with Kendra Remi has all of these misgivings about her and accuses her of working for Janus, but then that whole thing is never really resolved.
At the end of the book, Kendra leaves to go to live on a college campus, and there is no "final discussion" about whether or not she was a spy.
Nothing. You'd think that the two of them would have had some kind of discussion orhindsight laughter over how wrong they were about there being a spy or traitor in their ranks for most of their adventure when Remi was leading Janus to each bit of treasure.
Or Sam giving Remi a hard time about revealing their whereabouts to Janus the entire adventure, Mirabela being revealed felt like a throwaway, too, which was disappointing granted, I expected both her and her brother to be killed, anyway, so it was no surprise when she was killed by Reginald

That tracking device was still crazy! I thought it was one of the best parts of the book, to be honest, because I never saw it coming and felt really strongly that one of or both of the siblings would turn out to be spies and that turned out to be the case.
So, yeah, it fully explained all of Janus's gloating throughout the book, about how he would always know where the Fargos were, when they were moving and where they would end up once they arrived at their destination.
One of the better moments in the book, in my opinion,

I also liked how the Fargos cut through the cables/ropes holding the nets filled with stolen goods from Janus's yacht at the beginning of the book.
That was a pretty cool/fun moment, too,

I was surprised by the lack of violence, overall, in the book.
For some reason, I kept expecting more "danger" and/or violence and gunplay, Never happened. Perhaps that stems from too much Hollywood or the earlier Dirk Pitt adventures This was almost sedate in comparison to other books I read even though I never truly believed the Fargos were ever truly in any kind of danger of being killed at any point in the book, including some of Clive Cussler's early Dirk Pitt stories I sincerely doubt we will ever again have an adrenaline charged moment like in Treasure where Pitt and three others fighting a pitched battle with forty terrorists over control of a helicopter the terrorists need to escape an island.
Maybe it stems from reading Matthew Reilly's Jack West Jr, series of books Those are some crazy, adrenalinelaced books! In any case, it was a fun book to read, but there never was any kind of "elevated suspense" or sense of impending doom for me while reading it.


I would swear that Clive Cussler was the old man driving the speedboat that helped the Fargos escape Cuba after they infiltrated the old fort and took pictures of the manuscript before each page crumbled into dust.
The character fits the way Cussler describes himself when he writes himself into a story,

On the one hand, it was such a fun and fairly "nonviolent" book until the almost obligatory gun battle at the end of the book that it was a surprisingly pleasant read, overall.


I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying the book as much as I did, It was a fun, fast, easy read, and I could see myself reading other books in the series, Baffin Island: Husbandandwife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climatecontrol expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preservedand filled with preColumbian artifacts from Mexico.

How can that be As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatland a fabled object known as the Eye of Heavenbegin to emerge.
But so do many dangerous people, Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught between treasure hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them.
At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousandyearold mysteryor death,

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