Raise the Titanic (Dirk Pitt) (The Dirk Pitt Adventures, #3) (Dirk Pitt Adventure, #3)

by Clive Cussler

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

DEEP UNDER THE WAVES, A MISSION TO A LEGENDARY MARITIME DISASTER . . .

The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element - and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance.

Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic, the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission: to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century.

It will be one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever.

'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy

'The Adventure King' Daily Express

• ISBN10: 0748114335
• ISBN13: 9780748114337
• Publish Date: 17 September 2009 (first published 26 October 1976)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Sphere
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

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This is the best Dirk Pitt novel I’ve read yet! It was written 9 years before the Titanic was actually discovered by Robert Ballard (whose JASON organization I actually interned for once upon a time), so it was interesting to see how Cussler envisioned it (especially since he didn’t yet know that the ship was in two pieces). I’m used to there being some big bad evil conglomerate in Cussler’s books, but the biggest, baddest evil in this book was the weather!

The only thing I would dock this book for is the way Cussler writes women. I hate the way he writes women and about women at this stage in his career. It’s very chauvinistic, and it seems like every flaw a woman character has is entirely due to her gender. Thankfully, he seems to move past that in later years.

I can see why they tried to make a movie of this. Too bad they screwed it up! There could have been a Dirk Pitt franchise that rivaled James Bond.