Devil's Gate (Numa Files, Book 9)

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Great read, big fan of NUMA series.

every book clive wrote is great---this is no exception

In so many ways this book is much better than any of the series written by Kempercos. Gone it Trout’s stupid bow tie, gone are almost all the clichés, and all of the stupid or inappropriate ones. The humor Brown puts in this book is so much better than stupid stuff that Kempercos did. Gone is Austin stupidly going plunging into a known bad situation alone (or with Zavala) when help was readily available. Everything about the plot is so much more believable than Kemepercos. There is not the same amount bad information in the book, so either Brown is a lot more knowledgeable about things in the world than Kempercos or actually does some research.

I also very much like that they brought the NUMA head, Dirk Pitt (and Admiral/Vice President Sandecker); In Cussler’s Dirk Pitt earlier books you had a lot of involvement of Sandecker. I thought it added a lot of believability to the book and was a way to bring in another perspective.

Also suddenly there is a lot about the problems Trout has with being so tall as to make so much uncomfortable for him—something that apparently Kempercos could not figure out.

Also suddenly it was not just Austin that was being the hero, the others had their opportunity too, and Kurt also made some serious blunders that he recognized were blunders…he is no longer almost perfect.

Since I know little about the science around the story, I could not see any serious issues with the premise (of course it was pretty outlandish, but so much better done), and how it was involved into the plot. There were exaggerations, but nowhere near what Kempercos has in his books, and they were important in the premise.

This book is what the series should have been from the start. I don’t know if now Cussler knows better how to choose authors, or it was just bad luck that Kempercos was hired. I know that the first book of the Oregon files (first book 2003) is bad, but not sure it was as bad as the NUMA files books…whereas the later Isaac Bell and Fargo Adventures have had pretty decent writers from the start.

How the early books got the ratings they did showed me how little Clive Cussler readers care for good writing. Clive Cussler actually does a pretty good job in the genre, and so does Graham Brown,

Great book

GOOD READ

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Love the NUMA series.

Cussler always pleases. If anything he and his co authors are just getting better! Hard to put this down. Kurt and Joe have their hands full?

Great price. Great book.
Thank you.