by Clive Cussler
Essentially the swan song of the Dirk Pitt series, Clive Cussler’s Trojan Odyssey deals considerably more with character development (or more appropriately, retirement) than with plot. The soap opera-like appearance of his long lost children in the previous book, Valhalla Rising, introduced new characters to play with, but these characters are mostly tertiary. Cussler is careful to stage a scene with Kurt Austin, another character that would later have his own series. Pitt gets promoted to the head of NUMA and maries Loren Smith, and they live happily ever after. While it’s always fun to see what happens to well-known characters, I thought this was one of the weakest books I’ve every read by Cussler. He is usually rather thorough and careful to make the action believable, but several of the scenes in Trojan Odyssey are patently absurd. Perhaps he felt he could get away with it since readers familiar with the characters will feel some sentimentality, but I think it weakens the book.
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