Clive Cussler's Fire Strike

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Apparently, it was just intended to show the reader how bad the bad guys are without the situation being necessary for the plot. He gets beaten badly, has some broken ribs as well as other bruised bones and tissue, but ends up leading a mission. The author, Mike Maden did a very good job in writing this novel in the true style of the deceased Cussler. In this book, we get the intro chapter of the book to discover some of Maurice's earlier military history before he retired from the British Navy and joined Juan Cabrillo's crew. While CRISPR has been in the news for a while, this was the first book I've read that uses it as part of the story.

Cabrillo’s crew have met their most fearsome adversaries a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. A mad scientist-style villain with genetic engineering is at the center of Fire Strike but there are other parallel subplots. The book did have a lot of humor scattered throughout; I remember laughing at times while reading, but I do not remember what I found funny. Yes, its all luck and significant amounts of danger but at the end of the day we feel safe in knowing that our favorite crew will triumph again.Another story line is our following of the lead doctor ventured into the jungle to locate a friend of hers to deliver pharmaceuticals to her project involving native people.

D. in political science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. Mike Maden adroitly takes over the reins in his second Oregon Files written under Clive Cusslers name. I grew up working in the canneries, feed mills and slaughterhouses of California’s San Joaquin Valley. And then you had the "mobile attack group" attacking a camp "filled" with these enhanced soldiers and the camp is easily taken out with zero casualties to the Oregon's team(s).In their quest to stop him, Cabrillo's crew are about to meet their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. There are at least five different stories taking place, and none seem to have any relationship to the opening scenario, or to each other. Had any team members actually died, that would have led to some strong character growth as each surviving member of the crew would have had to process those losses. e. even though this is such a sophisticated ship, there is something in each new novel that will sink it), Juan goes solo on missions (which makes no sense, considering the level of talent of the crew and the myriad of injuries he sustains and miraculously can continue to function through the rest of the novel), and, oh yes, he also gets captured somehow in the middle.

Juan Carrillo and his team of high paid mercenaries are tasked to find the missing brother of an associate that has been reported serving time in an overseas high security prison. Langston Overholt, their CIA contact asked for an off the books favor to find an old colleagues brother that leads the gang into all sorts of trouble. When Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon, is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. stars for believability of opening sequence and weird over protectiveness of getting crew into the sick bay. I loved that he was able to use the shotgun shell in the heal of his boot to help him win a later fight.

Maden has served as a political consultant and campaign manager in state and national elections, and hosted his own local weekly radio show.