Crescent Dawn / Clive Cussler / 548 pages

For pure reading adventure with a bit of history thrown in, you cannot beat Clive Cussler. In Crescent Dawn Dirk Pitt and his crew of family and scientist friends beat the odds and a sociopathic brother & sister seeking to restablish their claim to the Ottoman Empire and find a Roman galley with the most significant religious find of all time...relics of Jesus Christ. Do you have to suspend belief? Of course no ordinary human can escape by the skin of his teeth as often as Dirk Pitt but what fun it is to see what he's up against next and how he uses items at hand to escape the jaws of death. Reading one of his books is like being in a wild action adventure movie yourself! What do I like the most about Cussler's books featuring Dirk Pitt, his wife Loren, children Summer & Dirk and buddies Al Giordino and Rudi Gunn? Hmmm....he's a classic car collector and one of his cars is always featured in the book, Clive himself shows up as a character, the gadgets and ocean vehicles are phenomenal and there's some interesting history and science thrown in too.