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

by Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

The fantastic fourth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.

A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last . . .

Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever.

Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action and suspense.

'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy

'The Adventure King' Daily Express

• ISBN10: 0670589330
• ISBN13: 9780670589333
• Publish Date: 26 October 1976
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Viking Books
• Format: Hardcover
• 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.