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Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul

Corsair by Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul takes about 8 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 6 of Oregon Files

Previous: Plague Ship Next: The Silent Sea

About 8 hours 1 minute

A week or two of reading

First published 2009. 437 pages, about 120,175 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 21 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 1 minute
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the Oregon and its crew face their biggest challenge yet. Ex-CIA ship captain Juan Cabrillo leads the crew of the Oregon on a quest to save a kidnapped politician in this adventure series. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates...who look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libya's new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-old naval battle and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.

Subjects: Fiction, Missing women in fiction, Missing women, Muslim Terrorists, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, thrillers, general

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