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    Medusa
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Medusa

    Written by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    About this audiobook

    Deep-sea explorer and government operative Kurt Austin must save the world from a deliberate viral outbreak in this thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author

    In the Micronesian islands, a top-secret U.S. government-sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half-mile below the surface, its passengers-including Zavala-left to die. Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.

    Austin's team has no way to prepare for what comes next: a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not just their own skins they're trying to save-it's the lives of millions.

    Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention that are unique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 2, 2009
    ISBN9781101154182
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    Medusa
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    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

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    • 3/5
      Typical Cussler. The whaling facts and references to New Bedford and Fairhaven were especially interesting.
    • 4/5
      This is another classic Clive Cussler story with NUMA people in the center of it. This one has Kurt and Joe in place of Dirk and Al. Very similar characters but still a fun story to listen too.A severe strain of the flu has broke out in remote China and it appears to be a very dangerous strain. It spreads fast and has a high mortality rate and no treatments seem to have any effect on it. The government is trying it's best to quarantine the area but it is only a matter of time before it breaks out and moves to more populated areas, quite possibly moving from an epidemic to a world wide pandemic. A US biomedical research group has a strong lead on finding a cure and is trying desperately to get it completed in time to prevent the disaster. When the project is nearing completion, the entire lab, with all its scientists and research disappeared. Austin gets called in to find them and save the world.Fun story and better written than many of action stories in the similar vein. I think most of these NUMA stories would make great movies like the old James Bonds.
    • 5/5
      The plot looks predictable in the beginning but surprises you in the end. Story line is the type of thing you could read in the newspaper. I have always loved Clive Cussler's books and this one is no exception.
    • 4/5
      An easy an enojyable read with an interesting historical prelude, a current events plotline but an underdeveloped enemy that keeps it from being as good as it could have been. A tri-headed evil empire should have either been fleshed uot more (and more quickly) or helpd over to appear in future installments. It ended up feeling rushed and simplified in the end.
    • 3/5
      I stopped reading this book about halfway through. It isn't a bad book - I simply lost interest. It is still worth giving it a go, though.
    • 3/5
      Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of NUMA and their underwater vehicles B3 and Bubbles are attacked by a mysterious submersible when they take a scientist with them on an exploration. The scientist is head of an undersea laboratory, Davy Jones’s Locker, which disappears at the same time. The Navy asks NUMA for help in retrieving the laboratory. Of course, as in most of Cussler’s books, the future of the planet depends on Austin and NUMA, this time in safeguarding the vaccine to an epidemic. Our heroes are larger than life, their love interests of this adventure smart, petite, beautiful and a bit helpless, and the Asian enemy cruel but no match for our heroes. One of the enemies is shot near the end of the book, and then….“The body was shipped to a warehouse where the receiver complained about the quality of the merchandise. The corpse was dissected, immersed in acetone to eliminate all traces of moisture, and then given a bath of polymers. The muscles and bones were touched up with paint, and the body bent into a standing position, the arm cocked and ready to smash a tennis ball. When the transformed corpse arrived in London to join other bodies in an exhibition that would take it to Paris and New York, a tennis racket was placed in the boney hand. In time, his skinned body would adorn T-shirts, key chains, refrigerator magnets, even the cover of the catalog sold at the traveling exhibition. “This part is pretty hilarious, more so as I have just been to the Bodies exhibition in Las Vegas. And indeed, all those sportive corpses are Asian, so maybe…..
    • 5/5
      it was a very interesting book excspecially when they got trapped at the bottom and the people at the surface had to find a way to get to them.
    • 3/5
      I have always enjoyed Clive Cussler's novels, and this one was the same. It was a reasonably good story, and a fairly quick read. I did find that this book had several rather campy references to earlier books, and introduced characters such as Dirk Pitt and Admiral Sandecker from his earlier novels, with very little purpose in moving forward the story. The story would have been stronger without them. I also felt that while the characters of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala were fun, they didn't hold a candle to Dirk Pitt, having lost a lot of that larger than life quality which drove most of Clive Cussler's earlier books, and without that quality, the books lost some of their charm. Still a good story, and worth reading.
    • 4/5
      This was another typical hero-saves-the-world-type story that has become the genre of so many of Clive Cussler's books. However, I did enjoy it and it was a page-turner.
    • 4/5
      The Sting of the JellyfishAlthough for the past few years I have been staying away from Cussler's books due to the extreme predictability and improbability of his stories, I decided to try again with his new Kurt Austin thriller "Medusa". After seeing the amazing jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few times, the jacket cover of the book pulled me in, allowing me back into Cussler's realm of deepsea action stories. I do agree with other reviewers that it has become apparent of late, that Cussler is outlining the stories and using other co-authors to pen the actual narratives. I felt that with "Medusa" it showed, and I was happier for it. There was much more substance to this novel and thankfully the action scenes were very realistic, not over-the-top improbable, which made for a much more enjoyable experience. I think that the one ingredient that makes this book more of a hit is that it offers the reader an array of interesting information on a host of topics we might not have known of or realized existed. This plot involves the history of New England whaling, and some very cool high-tech underwater diving and exploration equipment such as deepsea rovers, hard-shell diving suits, submersibles like the original Beebe bathysphere, and Typhoon class submarines. It was also fascinating to learn of the magical islands of Micronesia with it's ruins of the lost primitive city of Nan Madol that I had never heard of. Readers also get an up front and personal, not so picturesque portrait, of the horrors of what a pandemic outbreak of an influenza virus could bring to this world if certain measures are not taken. But the star of Medusa's show however, is how the authors use tropical water jellyfish as an angle that on one hand causes the story's crisis, yet on the other hand will save the day. The part that the jellyfish have to play in the book, again brings intriguing and wondrous knowledge to us die-hard Cussler fans, offering an intimate view of this amazing underwater creature that can either glide through the sea like fanciful ghost-like fairies, or can reach out with their lengthy spindly tentacles for a fatal kiss of death. Yes this was a typical Cussler "hero saving the world from impending doom" suspense thriller. Yet, I think Kempreco's input throws a positive note to the Austin/Zavala team stories because they are just more believable than the Dirk Pitt/Giordano tales that had become beyond credible for a real world experience. Many times while flipping the pages I found myself stopping to turn on the internet and check to see if what the authors were drumming up were authentic. To my surprise, they were, which made me a much more happier camper knowing this was not just all within an imagined fictional arena that sometimes these novels can bring us. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to have once again enjoyed another Cussler novel after my vow a few years ago to never pick one up again. Now I will. Medusa is a very enjoyable and entertaining read and I give it four blue glowing jellyfish stars.