Clive Cussler's Fire Strike

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That would have been pretty crazy, to be on an aircraft carrier and watching a C-130 coming in to not only land but take off multiple times with its payload being increased for the next time it landed. I think I've said this numerous times regarding these Clive Cussler originated books, but they're all good easy reading. I grew up working in the canneries, feed mills and slaughterhouses of California’s San Joaquin Valley.

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.

A former British Royal Navy/Chief steward on The Oregon but I always knew there was more to Maurice than meets the eye. At the same time, it was interesting to read about how Juan and his team sought to use non-lethal methods to attack the secret training camp at the abandoned monastery; that was pretty cool and well-written, I thought. When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. I think I had looked up a C-130 landing and taking off of an aircraft carrier before, because that was mentioned in this book, too, and I was, "Bunk!

It was sad to read about the damage done to the port as I can only assume numerous innocent civilians and military personnel going about their normal business were killed, but it was still a cool moment. The characters feel developed out and we worry for them, even when we sense that they are in danger. I would recommend reading any one of the dozen novels in the Oregon Files series before Fire Strike.My only issue with the story is that Maden did not place the ship Oregon in the center of the action. D. in political science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. 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. Juan and his team went to some lengths to make sure nobody was killed unless there was no other option despite it putting themselves at greater risk (because the bad guys would clearly not be holding back on trying to kill Oregon's crew. Maybe it would have been acceptable as a standard military action novel, but it does not carry on the enjoyable legacy of the prior Oregon Files novels.

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. Like millions of others, I first became a Tom Clancy fan after reading The Hunt for Red October, and began my published fiction career in the same techno-thriller genre, starting with DRONE and the sequels, BLUE WARRIOR, DRONE COMMAND and DRONE THREAT. Although Clive Cussler's novels were pretty generic, they were plotted out well, with almost every situation being necessary to the plot. 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 yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. What drew me to The Oregon Files and made it my Clive Cussler favorite series are the ship and her crew.