Gideon Crew (5 books in series)
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review 1: I properly enjoyed this book... In fact, as soon as I successfully pass the 'first act' point of a book like this, I generally tend to enjoy them. I like the escapism. I like the moral abandon. I like the being forced to do the right thing.The story gets off to a great start with...
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review 1: Gideon Crew is hired by Eli Glinn to steal a page from the famous Book of Kells that is on loan to New York. He is then to travel to the Caribbean to find the Lotus Eaters and to retrieve a sample of a plant that has amazing healing powers. Crew embarks on a trip that has the r...
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review 1: Definitely not as good as he other novels I've read. It was a little more cheesy and silly*, especially the first half. I was pleasantly surprised to find the novel picking up steam and becoming a little more plausible (perhaps less outright ridiculous is a better term) and I w...
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review 1: I like Gideon Crew, but this story never really grabbed me. Too many last minute rescues and near misses. The authors have done another fine job of building characters you learn to know. Clive Cussler has his Dirk Pitt and Joe Zavala, Preston and Child have Agent P. for their ot...
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review 1: At twelve years old, Gideon sees his father shot with his hands up, but doesn't realize his father was murdered. When he is called to his mother's death bed, she tells him the truth of his father's death. His father was murdered because he discovered a flaw in a system and repo...