"The Emperor's revenge" by Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison. This book is published by Michael Joseph in 2016 and has 464 pages. This is Book 11 of Oregon files.
A navy captain rescues Napoleon Bonaparte from prison replacing him with a double who eventually dies. A Father-Daughter duo has a very big plan. A bank in Monte Carlo and another one in France is robbed. An unstoppable virus is raking havoc in computers. Everyone is after Napoleon's diary and a column. Objective Napoleon's treasure.
Why attack power grid? How does Oregon get involved? Which crew member will die? What happened to Napoleon? How did he take revenge?
The story is entertaining. There is no slack. Readers are riveted. It's a big plot starting from Napoleon to bank heist to ace computer virus to a yacht, that is faster better equipped than Oregon, to destruction of European power grid.
Oregon files means advanced technology. In this book it consists of drones, rail gun that can fire special bullets at 7000 km/hr, solid state laser, hydro-dynamically powered ships, fastest yacht in the world and what not.
Juan Cabrillo puts the technology and his razor sharp mind to use and saves the day for the world, loosing one of his crew member in action. Who is it? Will they gain another member? There is also a love interest for Juan in this book. Will it fructify?
The action sequences are very good. They are thrilling, exciting & interesting at the same time. Credit to authors for handling the action sequences, in particular, and this big plot, in general, deftly.
In this book, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala make a guest appearance during an event. Juan Cabrillo and Gretchen from this series made a guest appearance in Last NUMA files book during same event (The Pharaoh's secret). Author has intelligently crossed paths of Heros of two series. It makes business sense and promotes cross reading.
The title is a bit of misnomer. Emperor's revenge appears only in epilogue. Emperor's treasure would have suited more.
Why did I read this book? Clive Cussler.
What I didn't like? Title.
What did I like? Everything else.
Good entertainment. Recommend reading.
No comments:
Post a Comment