Clive Cussler's Fire Strike

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The author, Mike Maden did a very good job in writing this novel in the true style of the deceased Cussler. Granted, the "super soldiers" plot kinda reminded me of Typhoon Fury except that the super soldiers in this story were altered using CRISPR technology as well as other alterations to their body based upon transhumanism, trying to shift certain groups of humans to "Humanity 2.

stars for believability of opening sequence and weird over protectiveness of getting crew into the sick bay.Cabrillo’s crew have met their most fearsome adversaries a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. Maybe he could have; I have read military biographies and military history books that have described military personnel undergoing crazy extreme wounds and surviving, so anything is possible, I guess. The characters feel developed out and we worry for them, even when we sense that they are in danger. Hoping to help a fellow former agent find her son at his boss’s request, the plot slowly takes us through a grand conspiracy, hoping to start a war with the US by firing a hypersonic missile at an aircraft carrier in the Gulf. This story had the added pressure of trying to find a hypersonic missile which was stolen from India.

As you would expect, eventually these come together to form a semi coherent plot, but it was well past the half way point of the book where that happened.There are at least five different stories taking place, and none seem to have any relationship to the opening scenario, or to each other. A mad scientist-style villain with genetic engineering is at the center of Fire Strike but there are other parallel subplots. Langston Overholt, their CIA contact asked for an off the books favor to find an old colleagues brother that leads the gang into all sorts of trouble.

Maurice, the ship's steward, has always been an enigma to me; I have read the books haphazardly, so I have do not know if more about Maurice's background was revealed in prior books.When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. I think I've said this numerous times regarding these Clive Cussler originated books, but they're all good easy reading. I stopped reading the Numa files and Fargo books because they were all the same just different locations. As I said before in my previous book review, a LOVE BOAT is the last thing I want when reading this series.