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

by Clive Cussler

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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.