The Wailing Octopus, John Blaine
The Wailing Octopus, John Blaine
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The Wailing Octopus
A Rick Brant Science Adventure

Author: John Blaine

Narrator: J.J. Campanella

Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2024

Synopsis

Rick Brant, Don Scott, Dr. Tony Briotti, and Dr. Hobart Zircon travel down to the Virgin Islands on what is planned to be a pleasure trip. The boys’ only goal is to unearth a possible sunken shipwreck and find a golden, Spanish statue lost centuries before to pirates. Archaeologist Tony plans to look for submerged Native American artifacts, while physicist Zircon expects to spend time just fishing. Soon after they reach Charlotte Amalie, the boys run across JANIG security agent Steve Ames in a chance encounter on the street. That accidental meeting sends them into the midst of danger and intrigue, and for once, they have no idea why. All they can do is search for their shipwreck off the coast of
Clipper Cay, keep watch on the people harassing them, and try to puzzle out exactly what is actually going on.

About J.J. Campanella

J.J. Campanella resides in New Jersey with his wife and teen children. He is a full-time professor of genetics and part-time book narrator of more than 80 novels. He has over 40 scientific publications to his credit, almost 2000 citations, and is the author of the first Eddy Bratenahl novel A Sum of Destructions and the controversial novella, Ex Sanctorum: the Full Armor of God. He is a former Sofanaut Award winner and shares the 2010 Hugo Award for the StarShipSofa Podcast. He holds 1st degree black belts in the Japanese swords arts of Muso Shinden-ryu and Shinto Hatakage-ryu and is a Tengu-Sho-level practitioner of Shinkage-ryu.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on September 03, 2018

The Wailing Octopus is the eleventh Rick Brant adventure, and is another good one in the series. Rick and Scotty fly off to the Caribbean, along with Drs. Briotti and Zircon, in search of pirate treasure. They soon become entangled with foreign spies and a hurricane and Steve Ames and the U.S. Navy,......more

Goodreads review by Rex on July 24, 2020

The scientific topic for this adventure is scuba diving. Rick and friends go down to the Caribbean to search for a wreck that has a special statue of St. Francis as part of its cargo. They suspect it be a gold statue! While diving they come across a group of suspicious divers who are planting odd dev......more

Goodreads review by Rose on November 13, 2022

I really debated on giving this two stars because I struggled mightily with how blasè the adult characters were about continuing the vacation and leaving two teenage boys alone after multiple murder attempts. However, I'm reading a book that's deep in this series and, no doubt, this has happened bef......more

Goodreads review by Ron on November 12, 2021

I first read this in 5th grade (1961). All my friends were reading Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and other juvenile series, but my parents signed me up for a book club and I got some of the Rick Brant series. (Which I'd never heard of.) All I remembered was the underwater stuff. Rereading it now, I'm amaze......more

Goodreads review by Kent on May 23, 2020

This is one of my favorites in the series. Partly because it was one of the first I read.It also got me interested in snorkeling and marine biology. Since I read it 50-some years ago, I have been to the US Virgin Islands and wandered around Charlotte Amalie. On that trip I stayed on St. Croix. While s......more

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