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The Silent Sea (The Oregon Files #7)
An ancient curse...
A prize beyond imagination...
Juan Cabrillo will face one to win the other.
A prize beyond imagination...
Juan Cabrillo will face one to win the other.
ebook, 416 pages
Published
March 9th 2010
by Berkley
(first published 2009)
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Hartstikke goed boek. Veel spanning en actie. Het verhaal zou wat mij betreft zo als een James Bond-film vertoond kunnen worden, uitgezonderd van de romances dan. Het einde is ook erg spannend en in sommige opzichten onverwacht. Ik vond het al met al een erg goed boek!
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Een geweldig spannend begin. Keurige schrijfstijl die direct boeit. Soms is het nog even struikelen over de lange zinnen en dure woorden die er gebruikt worden, maar dat went erg snel. Erg hoog niveau tot nu toe. Ben benieuwd w...more
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Een geweldig spannend begin. Keurige schrijfstijl die direct boeit. Soms is het nog even struikelen over de lange zinnen en dure woorden die er gebruikt worden, maar dat went erg snel. Erg hoog niveau tot nu toe. Ben benieuwd w...more
Cussler has a knack for creating larger than life characters and Juan Cabrillo is no exception. Cabrillo's home is the Oregon, a ship that looks like it's headed for the garbage dump on the outside and one that is outfitted on the inside with the latest technology available for doing anything. It's always enjoyable to see outsider's (read enemies) reaction to the ship and how they underestimate it. This story has plenty of technology, plenty of adventure and discovery, and plenty of harrowing ne...more
This is part of a series of books based around the Oregon and its crew, and not reading any of the earlier books leave one not sure if you can just pick it up and enjoy for the novels sake. For the Silent Sea I would say you can, as you read you get the sense that there is more depth to the main characters than you initially pick up on, and to those that have read any of the earlier books, this will not be a problem, and even for those that are new to the series it doesn't take long for the prin...more
An Oregon Files novel co-written with Jack DuBrul. I have read many of the Dirk Pitt novels written by Cussler, and I have read almost all of the books written by Jack DuBrul, so choosing to read the Oregon Files novels is a no-brainer.
The Oregon Files books tell the stories of The Corporation, an organization of persons with military or CIA backgrounds who now work independently. Their vessel, The Oregon, is a masterful work of deception and misdirection. No single paragraph, or many paragraph...more
The Oregon Files books tell the stories of The Corporation, an organization of persons with military or CIA backgrounds who now work independently. Their vessel, The Oregon, is a masterful work of deception and misdirection. No single paragraph, or many paragraph...more
I'm not a huge fan of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels. They're fine, but I just never connected.
However, I have enjoyed both of his Spy series novels. The Silent Sea is the first I've read from the Oregon Files, and I really enjoyed it.
The Oregon is a super-high tech ship disguised as a decrepit junk heap. It has its own helicopter, torpedos, minisubs, and priceless works of art on the walls. No, I'm not kidding.
Anyway, Argentina and China have claimed sovereignty over Antarctica, and they've b...more
However, I have enjoyed both of his Spy series novels. The Silent Sea is the first I've read from the Oregon Files, and I really enjoyed it.
The Oregon is a super-high tech ship disguised as a decrepit junk heap. It has its own helicopter, torpedos, minisubs, and priceless works of art on the walls. No, I'm not kidding.
Anyway, Argentina and China have claimed sovereignty over Antarctica, and they've b...more
The story starts off with five brothers making a discovery, a discovery that leaves one dead and the older three brothers shamed by their family. In the present, Juan Cabrillo, the chairman of a private corporation that does military operations and recons for the CIA/government as well as they hire themselves out as security for the insanely rich. Juan and his men of the Oregon, are sent on a secret mission into Argentina to recover a downed satellite that landed within Argentine border. They di...more
This is the 6th Oregon series from Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul. The Oregon appears to be a dilapidated freighter manned by a ragged looking crew when in reality it is a high tech and highly armed ship whose crew is known as the Corporation, and is led by Captain Juan Cabrillo, a former CIA field agent. He and the crew perform black ops for the CIA and also private security for different world leaders at handsome prices. All of the Oregon books I have read I have totally enjoyed, their ship is...more
Juan Cabarillo a navy CIA agent and his team of 10 sail the seas in luxury. To everyone else is a tin can rusting away; the Oregon is made to look like a junker but is secretly a high tech ship with top secret technology. It was an old logging ship and everyone doesn't suspect a thing. From saving the planet one day, to buying ice cream at food lion the next they do it all.
Juan Cabarillo the team leader owns the Oregon and will do anything to keep his crew and ship safe. Mark Murphy is the weap...more
Juan Cabarillo the team leader owns the Oregon and will do anything to keep his crew and ship safe. Mark Murphy is the weap...more
Hace un par de años me dije que nunca más iba a volver a leer un libro más de Clive Cussler. Ya había leído unos 10 o más y me parecían suficientes. El último, con Dirk Pitt como protagonista, me costó mucho trabajo leerlo. Ya me parecía una lectura monótona y repetitiva. Sin embargo, hace unas semanas me topé con éste libro como estreno en la librería y lo compré. Me gustó la breve reseña de la contraportada y decidí darle otra oportunidad a Clive Cussler. No en balde había leído tantos libros...more
This is the seventh installment of the Oregon Files series by Clive Cussler. The series started out as a spin off of characters created in one volume of the Dirk Pitt series, also by Cussler. The characters turned out to be a perfect base on which to launch another successful series of books. To date, I have enjoyed every installment of the Oregon Files series. And The Silent Sea is no exception.
The story starts on a family owned island off the west coast of the United States. For generations, t...more
The story starts on a family owned island off the west coast of the United States. For generations, t...more
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Een eeuwenoud mysterie wordt ontrafeld.
Juan Cabrillo gaat met zijn team van de Oregon op zoek naar een neergestorte satelliet in de jungle van Argentinië. Tijdens deze tocht ontdekken ze een Blimp die na de twee wereld oorlog is neergestort in de jungle. Juan en zijn team willen de nabestaande laten weten wat er gebeurd is met hun broers en gaan op zoek naar de nabestaande. Dit is het begin van een bizarre tocht door Amerika die eindigt in het Antarctische gebied.
De stille zee was mijn eerste ke...more
Juan Cabrillo gaat met zijn team van de Oregon op zoek naar een neergestorte satelliet in de jungle van Argentinië. Tijdens deze tocht ontdekken ze een Blimp die na de twee wereld oorlog is neergestort in de jungle. Juan en zijn team willen de nabestaande laten weten wat er gebeurd is met hun broers en gaan op zoek naar de nabestaande. Dit is het begin van een bizarre tocht door Amerika die eindigt in het Antarctische gebied.
De stille zee was mijn eerste ke...more
Juan Cabrillo and the members of the Corporation fly like the wind between Argentina and Antarctica in this tale from Clive Cussler. Cussler is an old hand at whooping improbable but fun reads and this is no exception.
In this one, the story begins with five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the Washington state coast and then continues with the introduction of Cabrillo, chairman of the Corporation, a quasi government sponsored group that operates a ship called the Oregon. It look...more
In this one, the story begins with five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the Washington state coast and then continues with the introduction of Cabrillo, chairman of the Corporation, a quasi government sponsored group that operates a ship called the Oregon. It look...more
“Good thing they shot you in the head, otherwise they could have hit something important”
In this seventh of the Oregon Files thrillers, Juan Cabrillo and his team move from the Argentine border, past a few islands and on to Antarctica in their range of assignments from clearing up a NASA snafu to protecting sovereignty of oil fields and finding a medieval Chinese wreckage.
I always find Cussler's novels enjoyable (see my reviews of The Navigator and Plague Ship) and this was no different. This pl...more
In this seventh of the Oregon Files thrillers, Juan Cabrillo and his team move from the Argentine border, past a few islands and on to Antarctica in their range of assignments from clearing up a NASA snafu to protecting sovereignty of oil fields and finding a medieval Chinese wreckage.
I always find Cussler's novels enjoyable (see my reviews of The Navigator and Plague Ship) and this was no different. This pl...more
The Silent Sea of the title is a Chinese treasure ship lost in Antarctic waters. This re-examination of history and a popular acknowledgement that the Chinese probably visited the Americas before Columbus is becoming quite common which, in and of itself, is interesting. Anyway, the crew of the Oregon lose one of its own at the start of the book which, in some ways, leads to the search for the treasure ship which would also prove Chinese "discovery" of Antarctica hundreds of years before others w...more
This one was okay and fairly entertaining but I wasn't thrilled by it. Cabrillo is just a little too perfect. For a man with an artificial leg he seems to have no issues with it what so ever. Yeah I get that these stories are not intended to be realistic but that point kept bugging me. I know that an artificial leg does not mean that a person is completely disabled but Cabrillo managed to run through jungles and other scenarios that would be tough for a person with all limbs intact and yet he ha...more
Aug 09, 2011
Jesi
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Remember when Bond movies were about the toys, eye candy, and big explosions? They were pointless mindcandy, but sometimes, that's really all you *want* out of a movie - something to distract and entertain. Sure, if one cared to think about Bond in a realistic-world-view sense, he's a misogynistic, cold blooded killer, but in those "it's all about the toys" movies, that's not really his persona. It's all a matter of tone and reference.
That's what Cussler books USED to be - a kind of Americanized...more
That's what Cussler books USED to be - a kind of Americanized...more
Mar 24, 2011
Brian
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
somebody who can stop thinking while reading
The last Oregon Files book Golden Buddha I read was bad enough I swore off buying any more, then somebody hands me this one as a present... so I gave it a shot.
To summarize, it's not as bad as that one, but it still ain't no heck. The plot holes this time are usually paper mached over rather than left gaping open, but there's still a few places the authour shoots himself in the foot (bad pun intended, if you ever actually read the book) You wonder if the editors actually read these things or jus...more
To summarize, it's not as bad as that one, but it still ain't no heck. The plot holes this time are usually paper mached over rather than left gaping open, but there's still a few places the authour shoots himself in the foot (bad pun intended, if you ever actually read the book) You wonder if the editors actually read these things or jus...more
Clive Cussler’s ‘The Silent Sea’ is another of his ‘Oregon Files’ series of books, about a private corporation that travels around the world in a old ratty looking ship ( The Oregon), getting the United States out of trouble in various hotspots around the world.
Of course, the ship is a conveniently disguised super ship underneath it all, able to do almost anything that they need it to do.
Juan Cabrillo, Chairman of the corporation, is a throwback to the swashbuckling hero’s of history, using hi...more
Of course, the ship is a conveniently disguised super ship underneath it all, able to do almost anything that they need it to do.
Juan Cabrillo, Chairman of the corporation, is a throwback to the swashbuckling hero’s of history, using hi...more
This book is also about the Oregan crew. If you would like to read my introduction about the crew than please read my review on 'Plague Ship'.
During a mission to recover a satellite Juan Cabrillo and his team discover a air ship in the Argentine jungle that belonged to the Ronin brothers who were 1940s treasure hunters. This discovery leads Cabrillo into contest with the dreaded Argentine Ninth Brigade (a deadly civilian-killing unit) to find what the Ronin brothers were looking for many years a...more
During a mission to recover a satellite Juan Cabrillo and his team discover a air ship in the Argentine jungle that belonged to the Ronin brothers who were 1940s treasure hunters. This discovery leads Cabrillo into contest with the dreaded Argentine Ninth Brigade (a deadly civilian-killing unit) to find what the Ronin brothers were looking for many years a...more
I would have rated this book 4 stars if the witty dialogue didn't include so many "that's why he said this" explanations. For example, after pulling off a very daring rescue operation, one of the characters turns to another and says "I was all I could be". Now, anyone that knows anything about the military knows that he was referring to the Army's slogan "Be All You Can Be". Yet, the author decided to spell it out with a "referring to the Army's slogan--Be All You Can Be", the next sentence afte...more
So, I decided to take a break from vampires and werewolves and all things paranormal. I picked up The Silent Sea because I have enjoyed all of Clive Cussler's books. I was not disappointed.
Clive Cussler has a way of creating great action stories, full of suspense and lots of firepower and explosions. This story starts on an island off Washington State, moves to Argentina, Texas, and Antarctica. And just when I thought I would read a book that was vampire-free, there was a reference to the Twili...more
Clive Cussler has a way of creating great action stories, full of suspense and lots of firepower and explosions. This story starts on an island off Washington State, moves to Argentina, Texas, and Antarctica. And just when I thought I would read a book that was vampire-free, there was a reference to the Twili...more
Five brothers are exploring the Treasure Pit on the island their family owns. When two of the brothers are lowered into the pit something goes wrong and one of them dies. His body has to be left behind and on that day Pearl Harbour is bombed. Three of the remaining brothers join the military and the pit is a bad memory.
Fast forward to present day Antartica. One of the members of the "winter over" team loses it and kills all of his fellow team members and then himself. The Corporation investigate...more
Fast forward to present day Antartica. One of the members of the "winter over" team loses it and kills all of his fellow team members and then himself. The Corporation investigate...more
This was the first Clive Cussler book I'ver read and at the time didn't realize I was reading a series much less jumping into the 8th book of one. One positive I can say is that I don't know that it's necessary to have read the other books first to enjoy the story. You really are just missing out on a little background of the charachters but the story itself stands alone.
I don't have alot of experience reading adventure-mystery type books but I have to admit I really enjoyed it. The twists made...more
I don't have alot of experience reading adventure-mystery type books but I have to admit I really enjoyed it. The twists made...more
Another saga of the Oregon Files, the almost derelict freighter/sophisticated and advanced mother ship of Juan Cabrillo’s private trouble shooting company.
Put together a mysterious pit on an island off the Washington coast, strange doings in an Antarctic research base and the recovery of a crashed NASA satellite in Argentina and you have the settings for the Oregon’s operative’s adventures. Typical Cussler fare, fast paced action for beginning to end.
ISBN - 9780399156250, Action / Adventure, Pag...more
Put together a mysterious pit on an island off the Washington coast, strange doings in an Antarctic research base and the recovery of a crashed NASA satellite in Argentina and you have the settings for the Oregon’s operative’s adventures. Typical Cussler fare, fast paced action for beginning to end.
ISBN - 9780399156250, Action / Adventure, Pag...more
I have read a majority of Clive Cussler's books. I have loved them all, then there comes this one... There are so many unrealistic things, capturing a torpedo in the moon-pool? Really? That is rediculous. Cussler can pride himself on his historical and factual accuracy in all his books except this one. Too many mistakes for me, a Cadillac Town Car? Town Cars are made by Lincoln not Cadillac. A torpedo with guy-wires? Guy-wires are to stop things like very tall antennas from falling over. I feel...more
Cussler weaves together the most complicated adventure. This one starts on an island off lthe coast of Washington State in 1941 and then jumps to the present time. the secret American "fix-it" team aboard the Oregon ship is sent into the Argentine jungle to retrieve a part of a shot down satellite. This leads to another adventure into Antarctica, where contrary to international agreement, they discover Argentine, with Chinese backing, are drilling for oil.
As a reader, my intrigue with these sto...more
As a reader, my intrigue with these sto...more
Maybe it's just the bubblegum version of Vince Flynn but I enjoyed it.
I’ve followed the unfolding saga of Pine Island for 20 years (A couple of years ago I once read what I thought was the definitive article in the "Rolling Stone” magazine.)
Cussler and Du Brul put a different spin on the mystery that goes the USA to Argentina and the Antarctic.
Some of the middle was slow reading but still easy and light. I particularly like the political analysis in the last couple of chapters - very thought pro...more
I’ve followed the unfolding saga of Pine Island for 20 years (A couple of years ago I once read what I thought was the definitive article in the "Rolling Stone” magazine.)
Cussler and Du Brul put a different spin on the mystery that goes the USA to Argentina and the Antarctic.
Some of the middle was slow reading but still easy and light. I particularly like the political analysis in the last couple of chapters - very thought pro...more
Mar 19, 2013
Eddy Allen
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
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The thrilling new adeventure from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author.
Clive Cussler's tales of the Oregon and its crew-"the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women" (Publishers Weekly)-have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers. But the Oregon's sixth adventure is its most remarkable one yet.
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discov...more
Clive Cussler's tales of the Oregon and its crew-"the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women" (Publishers Weekly)-have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers. But the Oregon's sixth adventure is its most remarkable one yet.
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discov...more
Title: The Silent Sea
Year: 2009
Author: clive cussler
Number of Pages: 449
Who is the intended audience of this book?
young adults
What is the main issue or problem the book addresses?
the oregon and it's crew (their mystery)
Setting:
The setting basically takes place telling of the Oregon's crews journey through land and water. so everywhere.
Description of main characters:
linc, linda, wilson, george and the rest of the crew, which they are all daringly entitled to sea.
Story Summary:
Clive Cussler's ta...more
Year: 2009
Author: clive cussler
Number of Pages: 449
Who is the intended audience of this book?
young adults
What is the main issue or problem the book addresses?
the oregon and it's crew (their mystery)
Setting:
The setting basically takes place telling of the Oregon's crews journey through land and water. so everywhere.
Description of main characters:
linc, linda, wilson, george and the rest of the crew, which they are all daringly entitled to sea.
Story Summary:
Clive Cussler's ta...more
This is the 7th of what is currentlyan 8 book series by Clive Cussler about a decrepid looking vessel that has state of the art propulsion, intelliegence gathering equipment, and armamemt. Not to mention the crew that are all top operatives. They have an unlimited government budget and get sent to all sorts of places. While this book strats in South America it soon turns to a nefarious plot in Antarctica.
With plot twist and kick butt action the storey was so compelling I bought the other 7 books...more
With plot twist and kick butt action the storey was so compelling I bought the other 7 books...more
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Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time...more
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