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Title: What a disappointment...
Review: I've enjoyed Cussler for several years. I admire his work in marine archeology. But he's no longer on my buy vs library list after this one. The one saving grace for the book is it exposes the reader to Iman Wilkens' hypothesis about the location of Troy and the evolution of the Illiad and Odyssey. Beyond that the book is littered with factual errors a sixth grader would spot. The characterizations are the thinnest parody of the worst of the Bond Movies. The tempo is uneven. The dilemmas are so over drawn as to give melodrama a good name. The basic premise is the least plausible one to show up in one of his books. I read it through hoping it would improve, and it just got worse and worse.At the very best this book is better than being trapped in an airport with absolutely nothing else to read...but only just.
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