Mirage

While on the road to Happy Valley I resumed reading Mirage by Clive Cussler. I have previously talked about this book in general but now i have almost fully read it and can comment on the plot a lot more.  The book pits it's main character, Juan Cabrillo against a Russian military admiral that is hell bent on wielding some kind of technological force that has been on the bottom of the sea for close to a hundred years. Juan only goes after him though after a botched prison break leaves his friend dead and with his final words he sparks a hunt for answers to his last cryptic sentence. Like all of Cussler's novels the story has some kind of history tie in. This one revolves around Tesla and his odd experiments that he started to conduct towards the end of his life. One of the questions posed to Cabrillo's team is what did Tesla create that would warrant the Russian Navy risking starting World War III. The book is fast paced and has action throughout. The one gripe i have about it is that it doesn't have the large scale military ops that some of its predecessors had but it makes up for it with scenes such as an underwater boat rescue, a submarine fight and a snowmobile chase. Overall a good book, to any fan of the series i would recommend it.