Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982
Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski and Nels Jacobson
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Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music...
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
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New York lawyer Vinny has never won a case. When his teenage cousin Bill and his friend Stan are...
Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions
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Fast Company reporter Joe Berkowitz investigates the bizarre and hilarious world of pun competitions...
Chasing the Undisputed Crown
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This is an in depth history of the fight game that follows the tortuous route to the strongest claim...
Fast Ice
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Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the...
Zero Hour (Numa Files #11)
Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
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It is called zero point energy, and it really exists—a state of energy contained in all matter...
Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Zero Hour (Numa Files #11) in Books
Nov 29, 2019
In truth the main players in this are Kurt and Joe with the Trouts taking a back seat. In fact Dirk Pitt has more of a role in this novel than they do. I'm not sure that is a bad thing, having find roles for four leading characters started to get a little stretched for me in the more recent books.
Back to the story, which could come straight out of a James Bond plot. Genius develops a weapon which taps into zero point energy and causes massive earthquakes. Feeling that the nations of the world have shunned him and killed is daughter he decides to turn the weapon upon them in revenge. It is up to Kurt, Joe and an Australian scientist (female, providing the love interest for Kurt) to stop him, against the clock and against all the odds.
This is a real old fashioned adventure story, a few twists here and there to keep the interest but nothing too demanding. It moves at a fantastic pace, has some brilliant set pieces and a typically over the top villain. There are multiple threads to the story which join up for a satisfying conclusion.
The narrative moves on at a good pace and never gets bogged down in too much exposition. There is the expected need to suspend belief in parts, but really not as much as other stories. This was an easy book to read and had that 'unputdownable' factor that should be expected. Probably one of the better NUMA files novels (which have in my mind always been the poor relation to the other Cussler series).
Overall I would rate this as a good, entertaining book, well worth a read if you like advemture stories.
Thank You Lady
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Could you settle down and make good in a country that was your country's enemy in the last war?...
Matthew McConaughey: The Biography
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Matthew McConaughey is a Hollywood star with an Oscar to his name and the world at his feet. Growing...