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Treasure of Khan

Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

8 reviews
Sales Rank: 7502

Media: Paperback
Pages: 704
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.3 x 1.7

ISBN: 014102819X
EAN: 9780141028194
ASIN: 014102819X

Publication Date: October 25, 2007
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Condition: unwanted collection

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3 out of 5 stars

All Action Novel! July 8, 2008
In Treasure of Khan a mysterious Mongolian tycoon is set on cornering the oil market, by destroying oil terminals, using secret technology, thus severly disrupting oil supplies.

My expectations were not too high when I started to read this book, as I found some of this author's more recent novels to be poor, such as Dark Wind and Sacred Stone. Treasure of Khan is something of an improvement on those books.

It is fairly stand Cussler fare, with one-dimensional bad guys, the damsel in distress, the main protagonists having enormous strokes of luck (doors being inconceivably unlocked, guards looking the wrong way at convienient moments etc.), that leave you raising your eyes to the heavens.

However, there is always action going on in the storyline, and it kept my interest, throughout. Not this author's best or worst. Three stars at a push.

3 out of 5 stars

More cut glass than polished gem April 2, 2008
Much as I enjoy the series; this I really do feel isnt one of Mr Cusslers better ones - I cant shake the feeling that Dirk Jr and Summer are mainly written by Dirk Cussler. Some of the writing, for example, has dirk and al behaving in ways other than in which you've become used to (Al, for example snarling). A little of the background of the Khans, in relation to the Yuan dynasty is a little off as well.

All the above aside though, if you're willing to suspend disbelief it's an enjoyable book as long as you're familiar with the Pitt universe. However, if you're not; this is a book to buy now and read after you've read a few of the earlier ones.

3 out of 5 stars

Lost its energy March 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Not the best Cussler novel by a long way. If you like action thrillers read Soft target by Conrad Jones its absolutly fantastic !!! off to read another Cussler to redeem my faith in him!!

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointed February 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Having read and really enjoyed Sahara, I was looking forward to the next Dirk Pitt adventure I got to read. This one was not up to scratch, in Sahara Pitt narrowly escapes death are few times, in this one you can barely turn 3 pages before he pulls it off with some ridiculous million-to-one coincidence, he even manges the old bible-next-to-your-heart-to-stop-a-bullet trick! When this story turns up another set of characters you are glad of the break from the man who won't die.

In fact he not only won't die, he'll plunge back into the same set of circumstances just to let death have another crack at him!!! I know coincidences make for great adventure stories and I love a good adventure story, but it's just the shear number in this book that just destroys it, and then the author just tosses a few unimportant characters to death just so he doesn't create a total fairy tale and that just makes it even worse because you have no emotional connection with the characters that have just died.

Not wanting to spoil it for anybody but the ending of this book is just terrible.

Rant over...
buy one of the others instead, the two stars here were only because the first half of the story were quite exciting.

5 out of 5 stars

Fast Paced January 31, 2008
Well I have read the reviews on here.

And....

I beleive the book to be very good. It is fast faced once you get paced the first 40pages or so and keeps the reader entralled. I would have finished it by now if it weren't for my slightly more disciplined approach to reading. i.e. read for 2 hours then feed the cats.

Pitt is on fine form if getting a little older, and yes his kids get in on the act late in the book. Giordino is classic, while Rudi Gunn seems to be a more background character this time around. Yaeger also appears late in the book too.

Still can't wait to get home tonight and finish it off. It keeps the reader turning the pages and reading and this is what storytelling is all about.

A super book, better than most reviews on here would have you believe.