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The Golden Buddha

Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo
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thriller corporate espionage thriller past tense third limited POV ~460 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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high-stakes action-packed corporate-thriller

A propulsive and dark thriller. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Action-forward. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 40
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 30
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count115,087
Page count~460 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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