Celtic Empire, by Clive and Dirk Cussler

A very typical Clive Cussler adventure. The variation this time is that Dirk Pitt comes alongside Dirk, Jr. and Summer to help solve the mystery. What's the mystery? Well young children seem to be dying due to a cholera outbreak. The problem, it seems only the male children are dying. That seems a bit odd.

Add to that a U.S. Agricultural team being wiped out in El Salvador, as well as a dam being partially destroyed and then a U.S. Archeological team being left for dead after a grave robbery gone bad and you have a strange mix of events.

What with Pitt, Sr. rescuing a young woman at dam collapse in El Salvador and Dirk, Jr. and Summer rescuing the team (and another young woman) in Egypt from the deadly tomb robbers and you get two plots that seem on a path to merge together.

All this is to hide the actual issue of a mad group of women trying to take over the world and eliminate it of the male gender and you see how we can get a fast paced ride of adventure.

Again the Pitt family is called on to save the world, and they take their usual path of greatest resistance to achieve their goal.

Enjoy!