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Medusa
by Clive Cussler
Description:
For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all. In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengersincluding Zavalaleft to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to saveit’s the lives of millions. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.
About The Author
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931) is an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler is the founder and chairman of the real-life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks. He is the sole author or lead author of more than 70 books
Skryf Review
“Good Reading”
Angaan
Medusa is the first book in Torkil Damhaug’s Oslo crime files quartet. Dr Axel Glenne, happily married as the novel begins, is seduced by Miriam, a student at his practice. At the same time, he becomes the prime suspect after a number of women he knows are murdered. Axel is convinced his long lost twin brother Brede is responsible, as he believes he has seen him recently on the streets of Oslo. Damhaug’s dark, psychological thriller explores the dual nature of man, combining a modern retelling of the story of Castor and Pollux, with one of obsessive, destructive passion.
Vishvesh
Yes, a thriller. Or a detective story, if that sounds more dignified. This column does not write about the genre on the grounds that it has not read one since 1987, and that there is a far more experienced critic of this type of book elsewhere in these pages. But Dibdin writes the kind of policiers that get reviewed in the TLS, and the latest one had just dropped through the letterbox, and I was going on holiday, and this is the kind of thing you’re meant to read on holiday…Zen travels all over the place, allowing him to annoy superiors in a variety of atmospheric locations. The ultimate punishment, it would appear, is a posting to Sicily. In Medusa he is at the other end of the country, in the Alto Adige, the mountainous region next to Austria, inhabited by resentful Germanophones. But this is really a sideline to the book’s real interest: the fallout from the battles between the military and the Italian left in the 60s. Even without the murder element, it is a useful look at history, and so knowledgeable that you could be fooled for thinking it had been expertly translated from the Italian. I suspect that this is a deliberate policy. I wonder: how well does Zen go down in Italy?
Shrawan
This novel centers around the exploits of Clive Cussler’s characters Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. These two and other members of NUMA respond to several mysterious incidents. One is the sudden disappearance of an underwater lab conducting experiments on a rare jellyfish (the Blue Medusa), an attack on a bathysphere that almost kills passenger Zavala and an attempt to kidnap a Chinese scientist at a remote lab in the Florida Keys. The NUMA team seeks to discover who is behind these incidents. They discover a criminal organization based in China that is conducting unethical medical experiments on humans and intends to create a deadly virus that it will threaten to unleash in an attempt to blackmail the world into surrendering to its whims.
Anupama
This book was filled with action around every page. This book is one of my favorites because it is kind of a race of time to find a cure for a deadly virus that can kill millions of people. The action is very fast pace in some parts and there are a few close to dying moments from characters. I gave this a 5 star because the author did a fantastic job with this book and making it very interesting and fun to read.