Sacred Stone (The Oregon Files)

by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo

Book Overview

Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his CIA-backed crew aboard the Oregon must beat opposing factions to a meteorite that could end the conflict between America and the Middle East in this #1 New York Times... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425198480
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

clusser

i am very pleased with the purchase. Book was in good condition and arrived quickly Thank you

Another great Craig Dirgo - Clive Cussler book

I read the other reviews of this book and I am again sad for the readers. If you have been a Clive Cussler fan from the beginning, you know that he is getting ready to retire soon, and has been training many new fine authors, including Craig Dirgo. This is not a Dirk Pitt novel. The Oregon files are not about any of the Dirk Pitt characters. Our stars in this book are Juan Cabrillo and his gang at the Corporation. A group of self sufficient mercenaries out to save what others have taken. They have concience and are providing a service to the world in a way that entertaines you. Juan Cabrillo and his team at The Corporation, again cleaverly weave their way around the world powers, and save everyone in the end. We had several bad guys in this book, the worse a father out for revenge. Halifax Hickman an industrialist, spending millions to bring down those he feels responsible for his sons death. Thanks Dirgo and Cussler. Please keep writing the Oregon Files.

weight training for modern spies

I enjoyed the fast-paced action of this story,but I was amused at the fact that Eric The Red needed two men to lift the meteorite when it was first discovered. Centureis later,the Corporation and their enemies juggled the stone as if it were a pizza:one person handling it with no difficulty whenever and wherever it was moved during the adventure;up hills,into and out of helicopters,trains,cars,etc. Try lifting a 100 pound,bowling-ball-sized, smooth-sided sphere. I can only conclude that all of the characters in this book,with the exception of Eric the Red's men,had the strength of Ah-nold. (You might also like to try sneaking into the tomb of Muhammed in Medina through the underground air conditioning tunnels just before the beginning of the hajj,and even entering the tomb itself without encountering a single Saudi Secret Service man.)

Not great, but still pretty good.

Sacred Stone isn't one of my favorite Cussler novels, but it is still well worth reading. I didn't feel the character development was up to his usual standards, but the plot was still excellent and enough to keep me turning pages. I recommend it.

action-packed thriller

Archeologist John Ackerman working on a millennium old Vikings excavation in Greenland uncovers a meteorite. He realizes that the stone is radioactive, struck earth around 50,000 years ago, and that Eric the Red and his followers must have buried it in this cave because they must have learned first hand the danger it posed. Two deadly opponents want to possess the Viking meteorite to use in constructing a devastating super- bomb that can wipe out an entire city in a blink. Aleimein Al-Kahlifa and his Muslim group see this as an omen from God to use with a nuclear device stolen in the Ukraine to destroy London; billionaire industrialist Halifax Hickman sees the opportunity to use the material with his industrial know how to destroy Islam. Juan Cabrillo, Chairman of the Corporation, sends his experts to stop both factions from succeeding in their respective plots of mass destruction. As with the first Oregon Files book, GOLDEN BUDDHA, Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo provide an action-packed thriller filled with incredible amounts of technological elements especially of nuclear and naval factoids. The gun blazing story line never slows down until the final confrontation to include an unnecessary adventure, the return of a second stone (Abraham's Stone) to the Kaaba at Mecca. However, the action to the nth degree oriented story line lacks the deep characterizations of the NUMA novels so that readers never care whether the good guys win. Those fans who do not mind casting in the pits as long as one escapade follows another will appreciate this non-stop thriller. Harriet Klausner