Blue Gold
NUMA Files • Book 2
by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
Narrated by David Purdham
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Under five hours to deliver eco-thriller conspiracies, a mythical goddess, and a race to save the world's freshwater — Cussler doesn't waste a minute.
- Great if you want: globe-trotting action with a pulpy, cinematic feel
- Listening experience: fast and breezy — more popcorn than brooding
- Narration: Purdham delivers Austin's cool confidence without overplaying the hero
- Skip if: you find Cussler's formula thin on character depth
About This Audiobook
Blue Gold sends NUMA's Kurt Austin from investigating gray whale deaths off the Mexican coast to South America, where a NUMA team has discovered a tribe and a botanical secret worth millions to pharmaceutical pirates. As Austin uncovers the connections between the two cases, the shape of a global conspiracy to control the world's freshwater supply emerges, with a billionaire eco-extortionist at its center.
David Purdham narrates with the bright, adventure-ready energy that Cussler's action fiction demands. The novel's multiple simultaneous storylines, a structural choice that reflects the global scale of the threat, are kept distinct in Purdham's performance, and the exotic settings, from Mexican coastal waters to South American jungle, are rendered with enough specific texture to sustain the adventure's geography.
