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Summary: One of his best
Review: I hadn't read this book in years and I'd forgotten how good it was. The humor of Pitt is first class. The suspense is excellent. If you like action-adventure novels that are well constructed, be sure to read it.
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Summary: Engrossing...Enjoyable... Wonderful action and detail.
Review: I have always loved the way that Clive starts his stories with a distant event or tragedy, and then brings it to modern times. Night Probe offers two distant disasters that are somehow related. It's up to Dirk Pitt, Clive's main character, (and you) to solve the puzzle.I thought I had the mystery solved, (especially the missing train... just where is that thing hiding?) but one by one my guesses came up empty. I think I figured it all out about five seconds before Dirk did. (So, I did out-guess him, right?) It takes an exceptional author to pull that off. And Clive knows how to keep the reader happy. This book has ranked as one of the top ten books I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying. (Of course, a lot of Clive's work is in my top ten.) Night Probe is a wonderful start to anyone just discovering Cussler's writing, or, if you've read his latest, exploring Dirk's past
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Summary: Weakest of the Pitt Novels
Review: I have read all buy 1, and felt this was the weakest. It was still good, but lacked in a lot of ways.....
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Summary: Weakest of the Pitt Novels
Review: I have read all buy 1, and felt this was the weakest. It was still good, but lacked in a lot of ways.....
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Summary: Best of Dirk
Review: I have to echo the other reviewers here...this is the best of Cussler.
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: I was a little bit disappointed that Mr Cussler's research didn't stretch to opening a history book and so he just made things up - changing history in the process. I also thought that Cussler took far to much time and clearly too much enjoyment from Brit bashing, To read it you would think that the UK intelligence agency was incompetent and British soldiers are amateurs. and their vocabulary is 'Frightfully small' but it was 'A jolly good show old boy" Has he even been to Britain - I guess not if he thinks they speak like that! As for the plot it was far fetched and inplausable - so what! its fiction and it was fun and exciting. I enjoyed the book despite the gripes.
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Summary: Damn fine novel
Review: I'm not going to give this one 5 stars because it's just not as good as many people play it out to be. I had read a lot of these reviews before I bought it and it just wasn't one of the best books ever. Hey, Cussler is a good writer. I like his stuff. He's a great guilty pleasure author. I liked Night Probe and will continue to read his stuff. All the same Dirk Pitt acrobatics are there. Giordino is in tow as well. Good stuff. Fun stuff. As can be expected. On the down side, I thought some of the literary elements were a bit lacking. Not to give too much away, but I was not impressed with the explanation of the ghost train. Not at all. However. I did like the way the train was found. That was good, heady, stuff. I did not really like the Foss Gly character. There was a bit of a contradiction there, I thought. He was awfully smart and got away with an awful lot. That's fine. Except it does not fit in with the final bit we see of him. Finally, I thought Shaw's role in the book was a bit abrupt in the fact that it seemed more words had been written about him but were sliced out by the publisher. I guess I would have to know Cussler to say. I liked the book. I'm trying to give a fair and even-handed review of it though. Definately recommended.
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Summary: A massive waste of my time
Review: I've always been fond of Clive Cussler books, although his more recent ones have had me groaning a lot because he keeps appearing in them as himself, never a good thing for any author.
Nightprobe, however, is his one duff effort. The concept of Great Britain signing Canada over to the US is so implausible that I actually laughed - no British Government would have done such a thing, especially as the War was supposed to be over "by Christmas", according to popular wisdom.
And given the fact that the US entered the war three years after the fictional treaty was signed, that would kind of make it obvious that the terms had not been adhered to. So why, after 70-odd years, would the treaty still be valid?
The other thing which increasingly irritated me is the fact that Cussler seems to have had no idea as to how the Empire worked. Britain couldn't have signed Canada away because it didn't own it - the Dominion of Canada had its own Government, as did Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. And the thought of George V signing Canada away is so laughable that it's totally implausible. Cussler seems to have had the notion that what London said the Colonies followed. Well, times had changed.
Read this book if you want a lesson on a silly plotline.
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Summary: My absolute favorite of all Cussler's books...
Review: I've read all of Clive Cussler's books, and this still remains my favorite. The ONLY downfall of reading a Cussler novel, as a single woman, is trying to find a man that will measure up to Dirk Pitt!
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Summary: One of Clive's best.
Review: If you're new to Dirk Pitt books, let this one be your first. The two apparently separate stories weave together to the climatic end. One of his best.
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