Medusa : v. 8 : NUMA files
Record details
- ISBN: 9780425235096 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780329798376 (Follett bdg.)
- ISBN: 0425235092
- ISBN: 0329798375
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Physical Description:
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514 p. ; 19 cm. - Edition: Berkley premium ed.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley Books, 2010, c2009.
Content descriptions
Citation/References Note: | Library Journal, June 2009 Publisher's Weekly, April 2009 Library Journal Publisher's Weekly |
Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. |
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Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Adventure fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Sitka.
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- 0 current holds with 0 total copies.
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Allard Branch | FIC CUS (Text) | 37842000544264 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Victoria Beach Branch | FIC CUS (Text) | 37842000611857 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2009 May #1
Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel. Research using a newly discovered jellyfish shows promising results, but before the tests even start, scientists studying these Blue Medusas start dying. As the pandemic threatens to spread through China, the NUMA team realizes that a Chinese triad is behind the outbreak. Now in their eighth adventure, Austin and partner Zavala are becoming almost as entertaining as Dirk Pitt and his gang. Some clunky dialogue and an ending right out of a Scooby Doo cartoon hurt a bit, but Cussler fans will stick around for the action. Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2009 June #1
In the latest in the long line of popular adventure novels by Cussler, whose first major success, Raise the Titanic, now seems eons ago, an influenza pandemic in China threatens to explode and kill countless millions. While a joint U.S. and Chinese team makes strides on a vaccine, bad guys working on their own vaccine to gain great wealth and power kidnap the scientists. Enter Cussler hero Kurt Austin (The Navigator) and his NUMA® buddies to take on the villains, and who do you think will win? Cussler loves to combine history with current action, so the key to a vaccine lies in the log of an 1847 whaling ship owned by the descendants of a crewman. VERDICT Cussler's thrillers are predictable and over the top, attributes relished by his legions of fans, and this one is filled with action, heroics, and apparently plausible science, which makes for great summer escape reading. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/09.]âRobert Conroy, Warren, MI
[Page 86]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2009 February #1
How can an underseas lab conducting biomedical research completely disappear? And why has a bathysphere been cut loose near Bermuda? The NUMA team is about to find out. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2009 April #3
In the prologue to the winning eighth Kurt Austin adventure from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after The Navigator), 18-year-old Caleb Nye, a farm boy on his first sea voyage in 1848, finds himself a modern-day Jonah after being swallowed by a whale and then cut from the stomach, alive but forever changed. In the present, a Russian captain sees his Typhoon-class submarine sold to an unknown buyer, and in China, Dr. Song Lee, who's been banished to the countryside, gets orders to return to Beijing to fight a deadly SARS epidemic. Meanwhile, off Bermuda, Kurt Austin and the stalwart crew of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) lower a bathysphere to the ocean depths, where something big snaps the cables connecting the vessel to the mother ship. Soon enough, the disparate plot lines converge in an action-packed tale that snags readers and drags them racing through heavy seas and high drama. 600,000 first printing. (June)
[Page 26]. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.