Golden Buddha cover art

Golden Buddha

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Golden Buddha

By: Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler
Narrated by: J Charles
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler with Craig Dirgo, read by J. Charles.

When Cabrillo and his ship are hired by the US government to find an ancient statue known as the Golden Buddha, stolen from the Dalai Lama in 1959, the stakes couldn't be higher. Success of failure will determine the future of Tibet. Playing the Russians off against the Chinese while battling against mysterious forces who will do anything to stop them, the crew of the Oregon face a formidable foe. But like his extraordinary ship, the enigmatic Juan Cabrillo has more than a few aces up his sleeve...

©2003 Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo (P)2018 Penguin Audio Suspense Thriller & Suspense China Oregon Russia

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Pacific Vortex! cover art
Blue Gold cover art
Thunder in the Morning Calm cover art
The Hunt for Atlantis cover art
The Teeth of the Tiger cover art
By Order of the President cover art
Fortunes of War cover art
Treason cover art
Fly by Wire cover art
Storm Rising cover art
Spider Shepherd: SAS cover art
Operative 66 cover art
American Assassin cover art
Elantris (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation] cover art
Firing Point cover art
Flight of the Intruder cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Generally story good but the Narrator absolutely awful change to Scott Brick, Books 1&2 of this series not in my collection just noticed that book 2 also read by J Charles, will have to suffer his voice. Looks like all agree as book 3 read by Scott Brick.

Listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a good story but the style of narration and having a different narrator to the other Clive Cussler stories I have listened to made it feel like a standalone book. Would be interesting to hear it in the same style as the other books to keep the consistency

Narrator and style

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love cussler's books; they're something of a guilty pleasure of mine. but J Charles performance ruins this book. whether the unnecessary sfx or the really bad accents, I can't finish this. please re- record with Scott Brick!

such a let down

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have read a lot of Clive Cussler, and personally enjoy the Oregon files a lot, because of that sense of a tight nit team defying the odds was much more appealing to me than a main character with some flitting cameo's. That being said, this book could be a lot short. It takes a long time to get going, and whilst the plotholes are all part and parcel of Cussler's storytelling...with thriller taking importance over logic at times, it took a long time to get going and then seemed to drag on long after the end of the mission. Everyone had been shipped off home, home free..-checks time: Hour and a half remaining- WHY!?

The narrator is not great, and the accents used for certain characters sounds like an uncle trying to do charades of a film scene, however, I doubt I could do much better with such a number of characters, at first I found him jarring, but it grew on me. This is the sort of book that I would struggle listening to in the house, or while I was doing something else, because it would eventually fade into the background, only for me to tune in 10 minutes later with no idea where I was or what had happened. I made the biggest dent whilst walking to and from places when I could do nothing but focus on the story, and once I was immersed in it, it was thoroughly enjoyable. A good 'gym' book for the cycle machines.

After a couple of run ups...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another Clive Cussler page turner, if only it were true but I can but hope. Well written and read, the detail is amazing and the book is well thought

Golden Buddha

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews