Clive Cussler is a fantastic adventure author, who knows very well to rise tension. The book ist easy and fast to read as well as exciting and sometimes funny. The main caracter, Clive Cussler is a James Bond-like person who alsways succeeds with brilliant ideas in hopeless situations.
It is not profound literature but entertaining. ( )

this is a book club edition, in good condition with slight shelf wear to cover and dust jacket ( )

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. ( )

As an arms race heats up, adventurer Dirk Pitt races the clock to raise the H.M.S. Titanic in order to secure a mineral that stands between the United States and possible destruction. Set predominantly with an engaging crew of characters on the high seas, the parallel plot takes Pitt along the trail of the original miners in order to locate the shipment before the Russians. In an eerily precognitive salvage mission, Pitt dives on the Titanic in order to retrieve a valuable mineral that would fuel a national defense system. After a successful salvage, Pitt and the crew are ambushed en route to New York by black op enemy forces determined to either highjack the ship and its precious cargo or send it to its final resting place! When the Titanic finally completes its maiden voyage against all odds, a weary Pitt discovers that the shipment never made it to the doomed ocean liner’s hold. Millions of dollars gone and the clock still racing, Pitt revisits several clues that lead to the true resting place of the miracle mineral. Friendship, teamwork, and patriotism combine for a breathtaking action adventure that is sure to enthrall teens and adults alike. ( )

Not my favorite of the Dirk Pitt books. The story was very interesting and everything but I found Dirk to only be a supporting character throughout the book. I primarily read this series for the exciting and witty Pitt, so it would have been nice if he wasn't absent from over half of the book. ( )