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The Eye of Heaven is one of the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures from Russell Blake, co-written with Clive Cussler, in the long sub-franchise the Cussler estate has been running with multiple ghost-collaborators. The Fargos, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team with the financial resources to chase any historical mystery, are investigating evidence that the Vikings may have reached the Mesoamerican coast centuries before Columbus.
Blake handles The Eye of Heaven with the relaxed confidence of someone who has been writing in the Cussler universe across multiple sub-series. The historical-mystery setup is the engine, the action sequences are reliable, and the married-couple banter has the kind of comfort the long Fargo run has earned. Fans of James Rollins's Sigma Force novels or Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series will recognize the careful ancient-mystery-meets-action register.
The closing chapters resolve with appropriate Cussler-brand cleanness.
Three stars. Reliable Cussler-Fargo entertainment. The Eye of Heaven Russell Blake novel works as a representative Fargo entry. New readers to the Fargo Adventures should start with Spartan Gold; new readers to Blake's solo work should look at his Jet thriller series.
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