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Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men—and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the Oregon find themselves trapped between two power-hungry adversaries, both of whom are willing to use shocking means to accomplish their goals.
Cabrillo and the team must divide and conquer as they fight dual threats, which include a supercomputer at sea and satellites that can wipe out technology across the globe—including the high-tech weapons on board the Oregon. The crew must rely on their unique skills to stop the tyrants in their tracks and save the earth from a dynasty of terror.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 30, 2018
      Bestseller Cussler’s solid if overly familiar 13th Oregon novel (after 2017’s Typhoon Fury, also with Morrison) pits Juan Cabrillo, chairman of the Corporation, a private organization that undertakes difficult missions for the CIA, against a secret cabal, the Nine Unknown, whose members possess ancient knowledge of physical and social sciences that could be used to conquer the world. Eight of the nine have decided to implement a plan called Colossus to “save the world from lesser minds and make them de facto rulers of every nation on Earth.” The group’s lone dissenter, Romir Mallik, believes that Colossus—essentially an advanced artificial intelligence computer—will bring about the end of humanity, and attempts to destroy Colossus with a network of killer satellites. It’s up to Cabrillo and the men and women of the Oregon, a state of the art super ship disguised as a derelict rust-bucket, to stop the villains and save the world. There’s plenty of action, but the stale scenario and stock characters add up to a seen-it-before experience. Agent: Peter Lampack, Peter Lampack Agency.

    • Kirkus

      October 1, 2018
      Ancient knowledge and present-day evildoers threaten the world order in the latest entry in Cussler and Morrison's Oregon series (Typhoon Fury, 2017).In 261 B.C.E., Indian ruler Ashoka the Terrible had nine Scrolls of Knowledge that together would help someone rule the world. Over the millennia, they were kept separately by Nine Unknown Men who, until 200 years ago, were all from India. Now, eight of the nine possessors have a plan for world domination, while the ninth, Mallik, has a "new goal to save the human race." His Colossus is "the most advanced artificial intelligence project ever devised" and would fulfill Ashoka's dream "to harness ultimate knowledge for the benefit of mankind." It would concentrate untold power in the hands of a few, but it may become humans' master instead of its servant. How those old scrolls contain so much unique and critical information is left unanswered; for example, how did the Scroll for communications help one man build a giant telecom empire? It's not the strongest premise for a thriller, but never mind. The heroes are an all-American patriotic crew on the Oregon, "the most advanced spy ship ever built." The ship, sailing in the Indian Ocean, is disguised to look like a sorry mess from the outside, but it's really a high-tech wonder. The crew's challenges include a missile targeting the U.S. naval base at remote Diego Garcia with a payload of the deadliest-ever Russian nerve agent Novichok. Also, crew members risk getting cooked as they swim near molten underwater lava. Onboard a vessel, they may be gunned down by a machine gun hidden inside a cake or cut down by a flying hunga munga. All the world's computers may become disabled by an electromagnetic pulse, and Colossus may achieve singularity.Readers probably won't lie awake worrying whether all this could really happen. Fast-moving, implausible fun.

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