Pitt set down his coffee and stared across the table with sudden unease. A painting hung on the opposite bulkhead, depicting a nineteenth-century sailing ship caught in a harrowing gale, its sails shredded and masts falling. A jagged cluster of rocks rose in the path, ready to bash the ship to bits.
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She often joked that the country needed more sailboats and fewer psychologists.
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http://pro-libertate.net/20150818/273-read-arctic-drift ( )

1849. Dos buques surcan las gélidas aguas del Ártico. Sus imponentes proas rompen el hielo para abrirse camino por una de las rutas más peligrosas e inexploradas del mundo: el Paso del Noroeste, que conecta los océanos Atlántico y Pacífico a través del Ártico. Al mando, el experimentado explorador sir John Franklin y, a bordo de las naves, una aguerrida tripulación preparada para pasar hambre, frío, epidemias y todo tipo de adversidades. Sin embargo, no sabrán enfrentarse a lo que los habitantes de los hielos llaman "el aliento del diablo", una leyenda espeluznante que poco a poco irá cobrando visos de realidad.
En la actualidad. Una bioquímica llamada Lisa Lane descubre la manera de reducir los gases que provocan el calentamiento global mediante una recreación artificial a gran escala de la fotosíntesis. Para este proceso, es necesario un raro y peligroso metal llamado rutenio, que puede resultar letal para quien lo manipule. Al mismo tiempo, un magnate canadiense está dispuesto a todo para silenciar a la científica.

Very cool. ( )

I enjoyed this book. Although not great literature, it was interesting, suspenseful, and hard to put down. Most of Cussler's books are fairly simple, but suspenseful, and so are an easy read. I thought this was the best I've read so far of his books - a bit more complex and suspenseful than the others. My ratings are not absolute, but usually relative to the genre I feel it fits into, so keep that in mind.

I read a lot of books like this, while exercising or just relaxing. I can sit on my stationary bike for an hour or more while reading - sometimes even while exercising. :-)

The book had a little tie-in with another book I read a while back, "The Terror", by Dan Simmons, who is an author I like a lot.

If you like the sort of book that's easy to read, where to good guys seem to always win, then you may enjoy this or other Cussler books. ( )