Clive Cussler's Fire Strike

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Hoping to help a fellow former agent find her son at his boss’s request, the plot slowly takes us through a grand conspiracy, hoping to start a war with the US by firing a hypersonic missile at an aircraft carrier in the Gulf. I think I've said this numerous times regarding these Clive Cussler originated books, but they're all good easy reading. Hard to believe that this book flies under Clive Cussler's banner, and that it has such a high rating on Goodreads. This story had the added pressure of trying to find a hypersonic missile which was stolen from India.

The author, Mike Maden did a very good job in writing this novel in the true style of the deceased Cussler. My only issue with the story is that Maden did not place the ship Oregon in the center of the action. I felt that the author took Cabrillo to an unbelievable "level" of survivability in this book and it took me out of the moment. Mike Maden adroitly takes over the reins in his second Oregon Files written under Clive Cusslers name.stars for believability of opening sequence and weird over protectiveness of getting crew into the sick bay. Maurice, the ship's steward, has always been an enigma to me; I have read the books haphazardly, so I have do not know if more about Maurice's background was revealed in prior books.

He gets beaten badly, has some broken ribs as well as other bruised bones and tissue, but ends up leading a mission.

Maybe it would have been acceptable as a standard military action novel, but it does not carry on the enjoyable legacy of the prior Oregon Files novels. As expected, the heroic lead character Juan Cabrillo and his familiar loyal and brave crew members are present to provide the exciting action. I enjoy the stories where the Oregon people are in control, we get some character development, and the enemies have no idea what they are dealing with (and are doing the best they can) because, well, they have no idea this ship and crew exists. I also liked how Juan used one of the stolen missiles to take out the other stolen missile (hidden onboard a cargo vessel in an Iranian port. Granted, the "super soldiers" plot kinda reminded me of Typhoon Fury except that the super soldiers in this story were altered using CRISPR technology as well as other alterations to their body based upon transhumanism, trying to shift certain groups of humans to "Humanity 2.