- Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, Underwater exploration, Heroes
Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing ... until ace maritime troubleshooter, Dirk Pitt, finds a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck.'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain ...' A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain's final, scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex!
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Brand: Bantam, Bantam
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- tur, German, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780861884230
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“Not that it really matters, but this is the first Dirk Pitt story.”
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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