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Vulcan's Forge

By: Jack Du Brul
Narrated by: Adams Morgan
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Beneath the Pacific Ocean, a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean’s surface, America and other nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan’s Forge, a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power.

The secret of Vulcan’s Forge begins to unravel when Mercer, a man of many talents now working for the United States Geologic Survey, learns that the daughter of an old friend is in danger. Saving her takes Mercer from the Oval Office to a secret submarine off Hawaii. On the islands, the secession movement, controlled by a megalomaniac Japanese multimillionaire, has turned violent, and the United States trembles on the brink of civil war.

©1998 Jack B. Du Brul (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Action & Adventure Espionage Genre Fiction Military Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Heartfelt Imperial Japan War Star Trek
Engaging Storyline • Fast-moving Plot • Good Story • Charming Protagonist • Complex Action • Excellent Presentation
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Great story and storyline development. Written in 1998 and they still used fax machines. Still a good story. Worth a listen!

Du Brul’s first book? Really good!

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Vulcan's Forge is an easy read/listen. Fast paced, not a lot of depth. Similar to a Dirk Pitt novel. I have read or listened to just about all of Du Brul's books. He is a good author. I had not listened to this title until it was offered free from Audible. I would not pay full price for it, but on a discount it isn't bad.

Du Brul gets better over time.

This is his first book. He gets better

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Child rape? Really? Absolutely disgusting. The reader of the book sounds as if he gets off reading the vile horrid book. Did not finish.

I can’t give it a low enough score.

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A couple of petty gripes though, all of the Asian characters are consistently referred to as Oriental. I'm pretty sure Asian is the correct name.
Also, and this term is used a lot, the thing that holds the bullets is called a magazine not a clip..

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Author needed to more research into handguns and military aircraft capabilities. Other than tgat not too bad

Mediocre at best

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I'm not, by any means, a professional critic. But, there are some easy things to criticize here.

Magazines, not clips. Find a better narrator for this kind of novel.

That's it. The only other subject to talk about is the one I saw other reviews complaining about. To those who were averse to the "child rape" early on in the book, remember that the age of consent in Japan is 13 years of age. The girl whose virginity is taken (who isn't named sadly) is 15. I don't condone this sort of behavior, obviously, but to believe the author is condoning child rape is ridiculous. And to state that the narrator enjoys the reading of this section is outrageous. Be ashamed of yourselves for your belief in such an awful thing. My understanding of this section of the book is to, in no seriously subtle way for those with a thinking mind, to associate one of the antagonists of this story with an abhorrent behavior. That is the obvious purpose of it, and to assume otherwise is ignorant or blatantly malicious.

Jack, kudos to you, you wrote a decent story. A narrator that fits your style would be a much better option. Try to avoid being canceled for your "misogynistic" writing style, I would like to see more from you down the road.

An okay book reviewed by an average critic

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Fantastic author, fantastic story. He is as good as Cussler. His stories are as good as the Oregon series, which he wrote with Clive Cussler.

rjkaral

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The book was poorly recorded and no matter what I tried it was just plain hard to understand.

Hard to hear!

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The narrator has to be the worst ever! Totally destroyed the book. There is only one Scott Brick.

Lousy narrator

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Much too much profanity. Otherwise good story, I wish there were a filtering program on Audible.

Too much Language

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