Book #37: Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This novel was another blind read, from a series called "The Duma Files"; the main character is Kurt Austin, who I would probably understand more about if I read some of the previous books.
This felt difficult to begin with, because it opened with multiple flashbacks, but the main story was relatively simple, and involved a failed attempt by Kurt to save passengers from a sinking yacht, only for it to transpire that one of the supposedly dead passengers was still alive and being manipulated by cyberterrorists, in a plot that put me in mind of Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes".
There was also another subplot involving a ship that went missing in 1909, as a result of being hijacked, and inevitably it ended up being connected to the main plot.
I found this to be an easy book to read, and a very gripping one too. I liked the fact that it addressed modern threats, including computer hacking, particularly a sequence where a submarine computer was remotely hacked. I would definitely consider checking out more books in this series.
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