If there is a current adventure writer who still holds the adventure genre within the bestsellers, that is Clive cussler. Like a modern Jules Verne, this author has led us through fascinating plots with adventure and mystery as backbones.
The truth is that this theme has been declining over time, becoming more of a dark mystery genre. Dan Brown o Javier Sierra (in the case of Spain). Neither better nor worse, just an evolution. And it is precisely in this evolution that good old Cussler does not participate, committed to adventure for the sake of adventure, with an absolute preponderance of adventure in the face of the new currents that practically flirt with the thriller.
That's what it's like to involve readers in your own lifestyle. If Clive is passionate about the sea, remote travel and the search for discovery, his pen sentences that way of life.
3 Recommended Novels By Clive Cussler
The enigma of the pharaoh
One of his latest novels addresses the fruitful topic of Egyptology. Starting point a historical reference with its necessary touch of legend. From there a hectic plot unfolds in search of answers to stop an apocalypse... Summary: «City of the dead, Egypt, 1353 BC.
After the worship of the goddess of resurrection Osiris is forbidden, some priests promise a married couple to bring their children back to life using an ancient elixir, a secret buried under the sands of the desert. The only price, to kill the pharaoh Akhenaten ... Lampedusa, today.
Near a remote Mediterranean island, a mysterious ship emits smoke, a deadly poison. Minutes later, all the island's inhabitants appear to have died. Responding to a call for help, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team will delve into the causes of the catastrophe.
Kurt must reveal the truth behind the legends, learn the secrets of the past to save the lives of the future. A desperate race against time in which you will face an enemy who stops at nothing or anyone. "
The sacred stone
A good adventure novel must include several aspects. The search for something transcendental that provides knowledge or wisdom.
A fight between good and evil. Plot twists that keep the reader tied. This novel brings everything together perfectly. Summary: «Captain Juan Cabrillo and his elite team have been commissioned by the CIA: to find a meteorite with a high destructive power found 1.000 years ago by a Viking and become an object of worship.
Two dangerous enemies covet the radioactive stone, an Arab terrorist organization that intends to use it to unleash a massacre at a massive concert in London, and a billionaire who wants to avenge the death of his son, who fell in Afghanistan. "
Sabotage
The XNUMXth century and until the middle of the XNUMXth century are very conducive to imagination and great adventures. Even within the industrial and social evolution itself, plots can be raised where the confrontation between classes involves an adventure with almost police overtones.
A small turnaround on the purely Clive Cussler theme, but still scented with adventure. Summary: «1907. Two railway workers, affiliated with anarchism, are preparing to sabotage the works on the line. It appears to be a simple act of protest by the trade unionists against the exploiting owners, but it causes the collapse of a tunnel and the death of many people.
To expose the culprits, Hennessy, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and owner of the most luxurious private train in the US, and his daughter Lilian meet with Isaac Bell, the most reputable professional of the Van Dorn detective agency. Hennessy had planned the railroad that would connect the two ends of North America, but the continuous sabotage endangers his work and the definitive modernization of the country.
However, despite appearances, Detective Bell doubts that the explosions were the work of radicals and to find out he gathers his best men and his great friend Archie Abbott among them. Finally, Hennessy will be able to identify the real culprit behind all the acts of sabotage: a public figure totally unrelated to anarchist movements. "
