I also liked how Juan used one of the stolen missiles to take out the other stolen missile (hidden onboard a cargo vessel in an Iranian port. A mad scientist-style villain with genetic engineering is at the center of Fire Strike but there are other parallel subplots. The plot revolves around two stolen missiles and one scientist's quest to improve the gene pool of humanity. 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've said this numerous times regarding these Clive Cussler originated books, but they're all good easy reading.

Apparently, it was just intended to show the reader how bad the bad guys are without the situation being necessary for the plot. I enjoyed the blending of current technological levels with advanced theories and advanced levels of technology to extrapolate how things might turn out if such technology was more prevalent today.stars for believability of opening sequence and weird over protectiveness of getting crew into the sick bay. This is one of those novels where you are thrown into a character's situation for a chapter, and then you are thrown into another character's situation in the next chapter. 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. Hoping to help a fellow former agent find her son at his boss’s request, the plot slowly takes us through a grand conspiracy, hoping to start a war with the US by firing a hypersonic missile at an aircraft carrier in the Gulf.

As I said before in my previous book review, a LOVE BOAT is the last thing I want when reading this series. e. even though this is such a sophisticated ship, there is something in each new novel that will sink it), Juan goes solo on missions (which makes no sense, considering the level of talent of the crew and the myriad of injuries he sustains and miraculously can continue to function through the rest of the novel), and, oh yes, he also gets captured somehow in the middle.Juan Cabrillo is doing a favor for the CIA by tracking down the brother of a formerly high ranking Israeli agent. 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. What drew me to The Oregon Files and made it my Clive Cussler favorite series are the ship and her crew.

A former British Royal Navy/Chief steward on The Oregon but I always knew there was more to Maurice than meets the eye.Although Clive Cussler's novels were pretty generic, they were plotted out well, with almost every situation being necessary to the plot. I grew up working in the canneries, feed mills and slaughterhouses of California’s San Joaquin Valley. I stopped reading the Numa files and Fargo books because they were all the same just different locations. Mike Maden adroitly takes over the reins in his second Oregon Files written under Clive Cusslers name.