DWD's Reviews

Published in 2006 by Brilliance Audio, Inc. Read by J. Charles. Duration: 12 hours, 43 minutes. Unabridged audio edition. Jack Du Brul's Havoc is a techno-thriller that races from the Hindenburg disaster to Africa to Washington, D.C to Atlantic City to Niagara Falls to Russia and back to Africa with hardly any time to take a breath.  The book features Philip Mercer, a geologist by training that often troubleshoots for the White House. This is the seventh book featuring Mercer, a fact that was not on the audiobook label. However, Du Brul does a great job of catching the reader up on what has been going on - I assumed it was the first book in the series as I was listening to it.  The Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937. The action starts with a traveler on the infamous Hindenburg as it flies to its fate with destiny in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. A crazed man is hiding a secret in a safe in his room and he is afraid that the Nazis know he has it and are plot...

This is my first Clive Cussler book. Originally published in 2009. For years I have seen Clive Cussler books sitting there in the book racks - one bestseller after another and I never quite got the itch to buy one. Finally, a family member handed Corsair (Oregon Files) to me and I gave it a tumble. I've done a bit of peeking at the other reviews and have found that lots of people felt this one was not up to Cussler's usual standards. That could be, I really have no way to judge as this is my first. But, I can say that this book was long on action, very short on believability and full of entertaining, but pointless scenes that didn't advance the plot but did pad the book's length. Positives: Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) This is not a book that fools around with misbegotten sentiments for the "poor" Somali pirates and Islamic terrorists. Pirates are summarily dealt with and a fictional comment from a real world historical figure (Stephen De...