http://pro-libertate.net/20130112/196-read-polar-shift
As company for a long drive, it served its purpose. It was entertaining and exciting. However, it is not a book you will think about once you have read it. It would be a good beach book or better yet, company for a plane flight!
It took me at least a third of the book to get really interested...but then I enjoyed it a lot. I always feel I've learned something with Cussler books...it may be an illusion, but it's a nice illusion. :-)