Vixen 03, by Clive Cussler
Quite a short book by his later standards, set in the 80's (but written in the 70's) Vixen 03 feels very dated in terms of race and gender relations. Pitt's girlfriend is pretty wet, and disappears entirely in the latter part of the book, to the extent that he never even appears to tell her that he's discovered her father was murdered!
Vixen 03 is a plane with a deadly cargo that was lost and forgotten in a Colorado mountain lake. Rediscovered by Pitt (whose character is also still pretty thin at this point), it transpires that some of the weapons are missing, and through a series of unlikely coincidences end up in the middle of a South African race war and an attack on America. Cue another race against time to save the world, amidst lots of explosions!
I didn't particularly like the first half of this book, but it builds to a satisfyingly exciting climax. So - manly men doing manly things. Probably with stubble. Not the best, but it gets better.
posted by Izzy @ 11:03 am
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