Iceberg (Dirk Pitt Adventure, #2) (Dirk Pitt) (The Dirk Pitt Adventures)

by Clive Cussler

High seas explorer Dirk Pitt must stop an American millionaire from using impoverished nations for his own personal experiments in this #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series.

A routine survey mission over the North Atlantic exposes a missing luxury yacht frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice. The ship had vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous, making it the responsibility of the National Underwater and Marine Agency to find out what happened. In other words, it's time for Dirk Pitt to cut his sunny, California vacation short and get back to work.

Of course, when Pitt arrives on the scene and discovers the charred remains of the entire crew, who burned alive but never left their posts, he begins to suspect the tragic loss of the ship to be only the first, deliberate step in a far more sinister plan.

• ISBN10: 0425197387
• ISBN13: 9780425197387
• Publish Date: 2 March 2004 (first published 25 November 1976)
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 29 February 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback (US Tall Rack)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780425197387

Reviews

[clairelm]

The third instalment in the Dirk Pitt series and Clive Cussler's writing continues to get better and better.

This time, Dirk finds himself caught up in a plot that stretches across the globe, from an Iceberg in the North Atlantic, to the beautiful country of Iceland and across again to South America and California. Dirk Pitt is a believable and likeable character, with a sharp mind and witty tongue but who isn't flawless. He's also very loyal and fair to those he works with and the good guys he meets. My only disappointment with this one is that his best friend and sidekick Al Giordino doesn't feature, but the replacement with Admiral Sandecker and Tidi Royal make it just as fun.

I can't wait to read the next one.

[ibeforem]

Worst Dirk Pitt novel ever. Instead of the charming, rakish Pitt of the later novels we get this really offensive version. I don’t know if it was just a sign of the times (the book was published in 1975) or what, but I didn’t like it. His usual sidekicks are conspicuously missing, and the mystery just wasn’t as interesting as I’m used to from Cussler.