The Oregon appears to be a dilapidated freighter manned by a ragged looking crew when in reality it is a high tech and highly armed ship whose crew is known as the Corporation, and is led by Captain Juan Cabrillo, a former CIA field agent. He and the crew perform black ops for the CIA and also private security for different world leaders at handsome prices.
Here Cabrillo is tasked with finding the Secretary of State, who has been kidnapped by terrorists en route to a peace conference in Libya where she is to be the keynote speaker. It is obvious from the outset that if she is not there, the conference will likely not succeed, which is the goal of the terrorists who have kidnapped her. Cabrillo's crew also comes to the aid of a team of archaeologists whom the State Dept has enlisted to look for something that would facilitate the peace process at this same conference.
There is lots of action and excitement as usual in the Oregon novels, but I gave this story only four stars because I thought that there were excessive descriptions of weaponry, and indeed excessive descriptions in general at the expense of narrative. Without giving anything away, there is a chase scene on train tracks that was so drawn out that I finally just had to skim through page after page (not something that I typically do in a Clive Cussler novel).
Bottom line: This is an entertaining novel, but not as well written as The Silent Sea, which I highly recommend as a really good Oregon series novel.
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