I am reviewing the adventure novel The Storm by Clive Cussler et al which is an excellent story which I bought from a local supermarket. In Britain this novel has only just been released on the paperback bestsellers chart and is currently doing quite well. It's part of the Kurt Austin series or the NUMA files as it is sometimes called. Actually he also does a Dirk Pitt series who also reputedly works for NUMA in a fiction sense and occasionally features as Kurt's boss in these novels. This novel kicks off in World war 2 with an American ship being hunted by the Japanese before it is destroyed for it's precious cargo. Actually the main theme of the story is nanotechnology and we later learn that the famed German scientist Wernher Von Braun as part of the story was working on nanotechnology which is creating many microscopic robots which can digest material and replicate and turn it into something else.There was a real scientist called Wernher who helped develop rockets in Germany during the war and later he defected to America where he was a key member of the Space Program. As part of the story there is a plan to change the climate pattern of the world to benefit the Middle East. There are 2 tyrants 1 in Northern Yemen & 1 in China that Kurt must hunt down. There is also a NUMA research vessel that falls victim to these nanotechnological bots. Incidently I did a post on Nanotechnology at http://scratbagroberts.com which is my main technology blog. It may be worth reading. Kurt comes across some survivors from the WW2 ship called the Roosevelts living on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean and worshipping American culture like a religion which results in some rather amusing questions for Kurt that he must get right and with a name like his at first they assume he must be German. He also has to pilot a seaplane and hasn't got a clue how to land it safely. They do say that is the most difficult aspect of flying. There is a nice young lady that helps Kurt and it has quite a happy ending as with all Cussler novels. I found the book very enjoyable and the plot is one of his best.