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Typhoon fury / Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.

Cussler, Clive, (author.). Morrison, Boyd, 1967- (author.).

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"Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take on the rebel commander, but a South African mercenary intent on getting his own hands on the drug, a massive swarm of torpedo drones targeting the U.S. Navy, an approaching megastorm - and, just possibly, a war that could envelop the entire Asian continent."-- Provided by the publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780399575570 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 436 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017.
Subject: Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Intelligence service > United States > Fiction.
Genre: Adventure fiction.
Suspense fiction.

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  • Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 September #1
    Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon's crew are imperiled by Filipino communist guerrillas armed with deadly aquatic drones in Cussler and long-time co-writer Morrison's (The Emperor's Revenge, 2016, etc.) latest spy-ship adventure. Owned by the Corporation, which conducts missions for the CIA and is led by ex-CIA operative Langston Overholt IV, the Oregon looks like a derelict freighter but is powered by magnetohydrodynamic engines and carries exotic weaponry like Exocet missiles and a 120mm cannon. The ship is in the Pacific when Cabrillo's called to find a top-secret thumb drive sought by both the Ghost Dragon triad and the Chinese Ministry of State Security. That problem solved, Cabrillo and crew are told Salvador Locsin, the communist New People's Army chief in the Philippines, has uncovered a lost Imperial Japanese WWII-era superdrug, Typhoon, developed from an exotic Philippine orchid. Typhoon is said to generate superhuman strength and provide "quick blood clotting and accele rated tissue regeneration," sure to trigger chaos if it gets into the wrong hands. Cussler and Morrison's superfast scene shifting via dozens of short chapters means tighten your seat belts, because the narrative never slows. Purloined art by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Raphael, Gauguin, and Cezanne bankrolls the assorted communist enterprises. Locsin is also searching for the WWII sunken ship USS Pearsall, which was carrying barrels of Typhoon. Were Americans tied to the killer drug? Or was it another of the "obscene medical experiments" of the Imperial Army's nefarious Unit 731? Along the way, the Oregon is imperiled by Locsin's just-add-water drone, the "the size and shape of a Jet Ski" with a "hundred pounds of Semtex inside." A good portion of the book's first half is scene-setting, then Cabrillo and company pull out the M-4s and Glocks and start settling scores. Corregidor's abandoned WWII tunnels and isolated Philippine jungle islands provide the background, but there's z ero character development and much macho, self-referential, and repartee-laden dialogue. Cussler and Morrison will always entertain when you're tired of binge-watching TV action shows. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 June #1

    Bad news for Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega-warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given Norman Ohler's recent Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich.

    Copyright 2017 Library Journal.
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 September #4

    Bestseller Cussler's fast-paced 12th Oregon Files novel (after 2016's The Emperor's Revenge, also coauthored with Morrison) opens in the midst of the second battle of Corregidor in 1945. During a U.S. attack on one of the mountainous island's many caves, Capt. John Hayward, who's searching for a secret Japanese laboratory, observes that the enemy soldiers who pour out of the cave's tunnels are furious fighters who don't drop even when grievously wounded by gunfire. After finding the secret lab, Hayward succeeds in grabbing a file marked Project Typhoon just before the place blows up. In the present, Juan Cabrillo, the captain of the intelligence ship Oregon, is involved in a mission whose object is to find a memory stick containing the names of all Chinese secret agents operating in the U.S. No surprise, Juan's present-day operation connects to the secret project on Corregidor, and soon he and his crew are fighting to recover thousands of doses of a potent compound that turns men into supersoldiers. Expertly drawn characters and a well-constructed plot make this one of Cussler's better efforts. Agent: Peter Lampack, Peter Lampack Agency. (Nov.)

    Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly.

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