- Fiction, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Islands, Scuba divers
Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Severn House, Berkley, Center Point Pub.
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- tur, French, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781436217231
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“Major Dirk Pitt adjusted the headset on his thick black hair and slowly turned the channel crank on the radio, trying to fine-tune the reception.”
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that d
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