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    Dark Watch: A Novel of the Oregon Files
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    Dark Watch: A Novel of the Oregon Files

    Written by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series returns with an all-new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas—Juan Cabrillo.

    Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.

    Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts-easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy—a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 3, 2005
    ISBN9781101154328
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    Dark Watch: A Novel of the Oregon Files
    Author

    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

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    • 3/5
      The 3rd book in The Oregon Chronicles. Juan accepts a contract to chase down some pirates and chases them down to save world commerce and the banking system. It's a fast paced thriller that won't let you put it down...not always believable, but that's OK. Our hero meets a girl near the end, but not much romance ensues. Ahhh?
    • 4/5
      The large cast of characters has been cut and I hope the new character of Tory(Victoria) ends up joining The Corporation. She is smart, sexy and can shoot-them-up just as good as the guys. It was great to finally see the human side of Juan and the chemistry between him and Tory was great. I hope future ones are just as good!
    • 5/5
      This was the 3rd book in The Oregon Chronicles. I liked the writing of both Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul which provided for an action-packed read. The character development and all the different plots added much to the reading of the book. I look forward to reading the 4th book of the series and highly recommend this book to those whose love action-packed adventure books.
    • 5/5
      This is the 3rd book of the Oregon Files series by Clive Cussler. With this book, he has changed his co-author from Craig Dirgo to Jack duBrul. While the first two books were good, this one was so much better. The writing style was stronger, the plot had more tension and there was significantly more character development (yea!). Those who have read the first two books and gave up, I urge you to give the series another try.I rated the first 2 books 4 each as they were fun, easy reads that kept my interest throughout in one of my preferred genres - despite rather anticlimactic endings. This one is well on its way to being 4.25 to 4.5 (assuming we could give partial stars) as it was a much more enjoyable read due to the improvements mentioned above.Book Summary from GR: Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts-easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy-a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.
    • 4/5
      Pirates stealing boats and people to work their gold mine near a volcano on the Pacific Coast of Russia.
    • 5/5
      awesome as always with his story telling ...love his stories
    • 3/5
      Juan Cabillo and the Oregon are battling slavers, hijackers, and bankers who have crippled the world economy. A good engaging book. Only problem I had with it is that the banks going dry storyline seemed to be tacked on to justify the gold mining which I felt was unnecessary.
    • 4/5
      The economies of the world are in danger of collapse because central banks have sold their gold to raise money. The banks must find some means of restoring their capital bases to avert the crisis. The war on terror rages along. One bank comes forward with a proposal for addressing the gold matter upon the advice of a Russian government expert, who has secretly developed a huge deposit on the shores of Kamchatka under the threat of volcanic eruption. In the Sea of Japan, ships begin disappearing. Not just held for ransom, but completely disappearing. In one case, a ship is sunk with its entire crew. One woman, Tory Ballinger, survives as the dead ship lingers underwater for days resting on a layer of heavy water before sinking away.Into this crisis comes the Oregon, a revolutionary new floating war ship designed to look like a aging merchantman ready for the scrap yard. The Captain of the Oregon is Juan Cabrillo, who is engaged by a client to solve the missing ship fiasco. In plunging into the fray, Cabrillo and company become immersed in human trafficking of thousands of Chinese. They are determined to save as many of these victims as possible as they address their retainer.In the fashion that makes Clive Cussler a master of the thriller genre, the story evolves with page turning frenzy as the Oregon’s crew goes underground, fights the bad guys, ravages squads of goons, enters impossible box canyons, and faces eruption of the volcano has the story reach its climax in a three-sided war. Cabrillo rescues Tory Ballinger, who joins the team and puts herself in the path of the enemies seeking revenge for her own crewmembers. She and Juan find they have some kinks to work out.Dark Watch is a thriller and is thrilling. The Oregon series is a stunningly intriguing sequel to the long-running Dirk Pitt series. Job well done! Next assignments are inevitable in a world desperately in need of fearless, dependable, and dedicated mercenaries fighting for the good guys.
    • 3/5
      I quite enjoyed this adventure story up until the final 50 pages and then basically both the storyline and the decriptive writing became more and more confusing. Juan Cabrillo is a good substitute character for Cusslers' other superhuman hero, Dirk Pitt, but I don't feel we get to know a lot about the other characters, paricularly the main opposition i.e. the Russian and the Indian. Cussler remains a good bedtime read after a hard days work ( a bit like a John Wayne movie) but needs to simplify his descriptive writing where shipping terms started to overwhelm me.
    • 3/5
      The third book in the Oregon Files series confirmed two things: First, Jack Du Brul is a much better writer than Craig Dirgo. Second, the Oregon Files are just not as interesting as the Dirk Pitt and Kirk Austin novels. The best part of Dark Watch was the Mission Impossible sequence near the middle of the book (recall that was also the best part of Golden Buddha, the first book in the series), but it ended far too briefly. The series has so many characters that very few are properly fleshed out. Also, the detailed "problem" identified by some of the villains early in the book is never actually resolved.
    • 3/5
      Juan Cabillo takes his ship and crew on an adventure including gold, slaves and Russians.