Eerie thrills packed in sci-fi mystery
http://www.brunei-online.com/weekend/news/sep11f6.htmCaptivatingly eerie, pure thrills capture Lost City by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos.
It's a part sci-fi and part thriller and succeeded in sending chills up my spine as each page was turned.
Lost City is a novel from the author's highly acclaimed The Numa Files which have won scores of fans anticipate similar, better yet, more from Lost City as they have been riveted by high adventures at sea that the author cleverly portrays.
This book has once again proven that he is the grandmaster of the genre which starts off with a heart stopping adventures in August 1914 set in the French Alps. Jules Fauchard was fighting for his life piloting his plane, facing imminent disaster.
The main story set amidst the Scottish Orkneys, takes off with a shooting of a reality TV show turned disaster.
Wheels are quickly set in motion as one of the contestants, Jodie, encounters dead dismembered bodies of her fellow cast mates and soon lets out blood curdling scream.
'Creatures' described as half man, half animal who were snarling, pull their victims down and tears them with claws and teeth, in the background.
These creatures chase after Jodie who blindingly runs for her life, taking the option of climbing the high rocky ground but loses her footing and fall into unconsciousness.
A ripple effect occurs as MacLean, stopping for a meal in the Greek Peloponnesian, stumbles on a news article in the International Herald Tribune headlined, 'Survivor Says Monster Killed TV Cast, Crew'. It leavs him shaken and immediately decides to return home.
However, his plan meets with an obstacle where he encounters tourists who engage him in a conversation and as the events unfold, he realises that they are threats to his life.
As he tries to plan an escape, the tourists abduct him and as they say, the plot thickens.
As the following events in the later chapters ensues, the NUMA project takes its toll taking place two hundred feet below the surface of Lac du Dormeur described as waters cold enough to kill an unprotected human.
Leading the NUMA's Special Assignments Team, Austin, a former CIA specialising in underwater intelligence gathering.
His team comprising experts, Joe Zavala, a brilliant engineering specialising in underwater vehicles; Paul Trout, a deep-ocean geologist; and Trout's wife, Gamay Morgan-Trout, a highly skilled diver who had specialised in nautical archaeology before attaining her doctorate in marine biology.
The assembled team has conducted many successful probes into strange and sinister enigmas on and under the world's oceans.
Austin and his team are challenged to uncover the mystery behind the disappearances of scientists in a remote Greek laboratory.
And what is more baffling and terrifying is the discovery of an enzyme that promises to prolong life, 2,000 feet down in the North Atlantic, in an area known as 'Lost City', which apparently prompts people who attempt to harvest it to get killed.
This novel will whet the appetite of avid thrillers and sci-fi readers as he vividly describes the scene - gripping the reader's emotions as they are sent on an underwater adventure only the imagination can best capture.
Clive Cussler is also the author of the Dirk PittŪ Adventures; Kurt Austin Adventures written with Paul Kempresco; Oregon Files Adventures written with Craig Dirgo and non fiction series, The Sea Hunters II, Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed and The Sea Hunters.