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Warming. Clive and Dirk Cussler’s latest collaboration, Arctic Drift, continues a formula for writing action novels that sell loads of copies. Through reprising a cast of characters that are reliable and predictable in their behavior, a familiarity develops for readers that provides for comfortable reading. In a cold snap of outside weather, reading Acrtic Drift gave me a good excuse to stay inside and warm. The Cusslers can and have done better. We have a nasty and un-nuanced villain. While I can live with the herculean competence and just-in-time heroism by Pitt and team (after all, that’s part of the successful formula), it’s more fun to have a worthy and more complicated adversary than the bad guys in this novel. The imagined belligerence of
Rating: Three-star (Recommended)
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