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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Parts of this were really good and parts of it were really bad! Right now I'm trying to decide whether or not to give another offering from this author a read. However, since I really didn't like the character of Dirk Pitt, I'll definitely avoid the myriad of tomes featuring that character as the protagonist. (  ) readingrat | Oct 28, 2008 |  The usual storyline... except that we learn two things: how Al gets his cigars from and that Pitt has kids :-) (  ) xavierroy | Nov 12, 2007 | Cussler once again gives a book where he can tie in history with the present and make it palpable. Good read. (  ) madams | Sep 25, 2007 | Good book that kept my attention. The hero, Dirk Pitt, is more comic book hero than a character in a novel. Also, Technology that is used is futuristic and gain out of comic book. Cussler coul dhave left some of it out. Alos, not sure what we included a story about Vikings here and call the book Valhalla Rising? Book about Pitt and his buddy AL Giordano stopping terrorists from blowing up NYC by attempting to crash a tanker filled with liqued propane into World Trade Center. Book takes place in 2003 but book published in 2001. Leaving out viking part would not have hurt story. Alos, Pitt discovers that Capt Nemo really lived. Again this portion of book did not really have anythign to do with main story ( ) pgam01 | Jun 27, 2007 | Not Cussler's best effort. It has some of the much welcomed elements that have been absent from more recent books, but two historical parts of the story don't quite work together believably. ( ) Garridon | May 29, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Pitt and his trusty pal Al Giordino track the sinking to the boardroom door of a multinational conglomerate called Cerberus, whose evil CEO has designs on the world's oil supply. He'll do anything to keep Egan's advanced engines and secret formula for frictionless oil off the market--even sabotage another vessel, this time a luxury passenger submarine. By the time our heroes have foiled the mastermind's nefarious plots, they've also uncovered the existence of a working submarine nearly a century before one actually existed--irrefutable proof of a Viking landing on the Hudson River--and the remains of the British sailor who inspired Jules Verne's Captain Nemo. A solid page-turner that even features a cameo appearance by the author himself, Valhalla Rising snaps, crackles, and pops with Cussler's usual brio. --Jane Adams
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