Corsair
Corsair is a 2009 pirate adventure and adventure fiction novel by Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul. Much of the action takes place in Libya. Characters include Juan Cabrillo. It deals with missing women, muslim Terrorists, missing persons and Juan Cabrillo.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 13 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 16 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list in 2009.
It runs to roughly 437 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Corsair
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.
Awards & lists
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — Hardcover Fiction, 2009
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — Mass Market Paperback, 2010
Quick answers
Who wrote Corsair?
Corsair was written by Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul and first published in 2009.
What genre is Corsair?
It is usually shelved as Pirate Fiction and Adventure.
How long is Corsair?
The median edition has 437 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Corsair?
Readers who like it often enjoy Pirate Latitudes, The Confusion. Volume II of the Baroque Cycle and The Invaders.
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