(5) = Best; (4) = Better; (3) = Good; (2) = Fair; (1) = OK
These abstracts serve as reminders to myself; they serve to "jog" my memory on what a book was all about. That's all. This is not a literary critique, not a social commentary, and certainly nothing profound to warrant further discussion.
(5) = means that I really enjoyed this book; (1) = means I finished reading it but wonder if my time could have been better spent elsewhere.
Wouldn’t you know! I read this book a loonnngg time ago. I didn’t realize that until I was halfway through. Cussler has a way of surreptiously hiding the main plot until everything unfolds and when that occurred I said to myself, “Oh yeah. I know what’s going on…” The main plot is about Nazis who escaped from Germany at the end of WWII, and who was determined to start the beginning of the 4th Reich. They called it the 4th Empire. They have this pervasive, uncontrolled, megalomaniac belief of being the super race, and they were determined to wipe out humanity to start over with their own kind. Thanks for Dirk Pitt who foiled the enemy of civilization again! (3)
The book opens with a person being tossed out of a heliocopter. We learn he was once on Jack Reachers elite team in the Military Police and I am hooked. Jack is bumming around the Portland area running out of money, and his checking account has a $1030 deposit that he never made. Ten thirty (1030) is code word for his team calling for help from a team member. Reacher deducts correctly that someone on the team is in urgent need of help. We learn later that four members of his former team had disappeared. Jack is back on the job. He resolves to find the people who had killed former team members. (3)
I need to apologize for not entering more abstracts. Don’t have enough time to do a write up of all the books I’ve been reading. You will note I’ve ignored all the Harry Potter books which I love but simply do not want to even begin thinking about how to summarize them!
James Patterson, again, introduces Alex Cross who had retired but is brought back to this adventure to “chase after” a brilliant serial killer who manages to escape from one of those prisons no one is supposed to be able to escape. This serial killer threatened Alex a long time ago, so when the escape is announced Alex secures his family and joins the police force again to chase the killer. People are killed across the country and clues are left behind, but no one can figure them out. It turns out there is a Copy Cat killer. Patterson plots are so detailed and complicated I will shut up now. (2)
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