Show — Cussler goes by Joseph The Utah Statesman down again Butkridge Clive Cussler who may very well have written the liner note which ay he “live the same tort of adventurous life as his hero Dirk Pitt" has taken another dive with his latest over undersea rescue novel Nightprobt (') Cussler’s novels which feature the superman (and lover) Pitt and often use exclamation points at the end of their title are nice little compact examples of continuing tension and wondrous and total release upon climax (not unlike Pitt’s dalliances with his ladies) In this Cussler's fifth novel Pitt and the National Underwater and Marine Agency are faced with salvaging a document which will save the United States from the collapse which goes along with dependence upon foreign oil The long-loNorth American Treaty which would and unknown-o- f States United the possession of Canada exists in two give in a sea vessel at the bottom of the copies of a document one mouth of the St Lawrence River and the other in a train lost in the Hudson River near Columbiaville New York Pm and his pals want either copy — or both — before the Canadians Quebecois or the British can get to them The Bntish send superagent Brian Shaw the French Canadians send ruthless Guy Foss and beautiful US Navy officer Heidi Milligan gets caught in the middle As alwavs it's conflict after conflict that Pitt resolves with macho aplumb It may tie interesting but it's not of this st h-- Wednesday Sepiemlwr 30 ldjjl Pane — i jniii-iiiiNi'- Z3 u NEW FROM iw a When you buy a stereo system it s important to look for good sound reproduction But you also want the system to look good in your living room That's what makes Panasonic's Soundscape P4 so special We start d with a cabinet with castors and pack it with an amptuner cassette deck and turntable this combination is capable of outstanding fidelity particularly with its newly refined custom-designe- glass-accent- ed Turbo-Thrust- er speakers world Among the problems of this book is that same format of The Hardy Boys or — even the scientific angle — Tom Swift Although nt not a staple of these adolescent and they nevertheless must mative writing years it runs along the sale $69995 P-- 4 closer considering violent death was thrillers have been the fodder in Cussler’s for- His development of plot and character are rudimentary and instructive in nature mostly to introduce new readers to his characters and their environs But more than this those who people the pages of Cussler Come and hear our great selection of Component Systems mu mcDqjSE 00 SOOMD The quest of their paper fleece along recreational sex (as opposed to procreational) comprises them NUMA's head Adm James Sandecier jogs with a Churchillesque cigar firmly in mouth and Pitt drives an old Shelby Cobra but those are only cursory gestures on Cussler’s part Sightpnbt' is complex in comparison to Cussler’s other tales and deals on a wider international scale than Sai Tkt Titan u or Vun 3 It also deals more in arcane gadgetry While it does have plenty of thrills the technically knotty storyline and lack of character depth do not allow the reader are with occasional is all that to immerse Open Mon-Sa- t 9:30-6:0- 0 94 So Main Logan himself in the book 000 M MO i UJ83 PE30V a mojw GH0E mp?vc:no-- o FCC1 TODIES 753-064- HfOS-- O 4 51 |