Sacred Stone (Oregon Files Series)

by Clive Cussler

Other authorsJ. Charles (Reader)
2004

Status

Available

Series

Oregon Files (2)

Genres

Collection

CD Audiobook

Publication

Brilliance Audio on CD (2004), Edition: Abridged

Description

Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Juan Cabrillo and his CIA-backed Oregon crew must beat opposing factions to a discovery that could prevent World War III in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing groups who seek the stone for themselves.   One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the west. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself.   Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his crew must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone�??and prevent the outbreak of World War III… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MSWallack
I gave Golden Buddha, the first book in this series, a fairly good review. Unfortunately, I cannot do the same for Sacred Stone. Everything that was enjoyable about Golden Buddha was absent. Instead, the book reads more like a logistics textbook, with the main characters placing their subordinates
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 around like a chess match. In fact, many of the action sequences in the book are simply glossed over so that the others can return to the tedium of logistics (let's put this helicopter over there, and this boat here...). If the next book in the series (if there is one) is not a significant improvement, then the series is dead. Note: The next book in the series was co-written with Jack Du Brul (an author whose books I've really enjoyed) instead of Craig Dirgo.
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LibraryThing member paulmorriss
This is one of the worst books I've ever read. I don't say that lightly. There are plenty of books which I've abandoned because I didn't get on with them, because they aren't the sort of books I like, or because I didn't connect with the characters.

The reason I say this book is so bad is because
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 the plotting is so lazy. More than once the author uses the device, "little did he know that..." in order to introduce a plot point so the rest of the book makes sense.
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LibraryThing member Ameise1
What a fast-paced page-turner. It's starting out in Greenland in a earlier time. Back in our time the plot is taking the reader from Greenland to Scotland further down to England and finally to the Arabian Peninsula. The corporation team needs all twist and angle to solve the requested problems but
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 it wouldn't be a real Cussler when his protagonists wouldn't be able to rescue the world.
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LibraryThing member HenriMoreaux
I'm a pretty big fan of Cussler, I own all of his books, most in 1st Edition Hardcovers, but this one definitely let the standards slip, it's certainly not in the league of the NUMA or Dirk Pitt books. It left me wondering about the level of Cussler's involvement in the writing of this book and how
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 much was his co-author as not only was it lacking the usual suspense & depth ending virtually every chapter with "little did he know that ...." was tiring.
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LibraryThing member readafew
The Oregon Files is a series reminiscent of the A-Team. Good guys win, bad guys lose, just how it 'should' be. Entertaining and fun to listen to when driving. Not sure if I could actually read a book though. This one a billionaire goes psycho over the death of his son and creates a plan to
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 single-handedly deal a crippling blow the Islamic religion. Possibly killing millions. The Corporation by chance happens to get caught up in the middle and do what they can to save the day.
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LibraryThing member Carol420
enjoyed the fast-paced action of this story,but I was amused at the fact that Eric The Red needed two men to lift the meteorite when it was first discovered. Centuries later,the Corporation and their enemies juggled the stone as if it were a pizza: one person handling it with no difficulty whenever
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 and wherever it was moved during the adventure; up hills,into and out of helicopters,trains,cars,etc. Try lifting a 100 pound,bowling-ball-sized, smooth-sided sphere. I can only conclude that all of the characters in this book,with the exception of Eric the Red's men, had exceptional strength.
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LibraryThing member jpsnow
An Oregon Files book taking place in England, Greenland and the Middle East.
LibraryThing member claidheamdanns
Very enjoyable read and nice collaboration. And I really enjoyed Jake Charles‘ reading style!

Subjects

Original publication date

2005-01

ISBN

1596002409 / 9781596002401

Barcode

0100199

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