- Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, Adventure stories, Large type books
Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of his career--a billionaire Australian diamond king with whom he must wage conflict above and below the sea for the survival of vast numbers of sea creatures and more than a million human beings.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and resolved.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 572
- Publisher
- GRASSET ET FASQUELLE, LGF, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Polish, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781471166716
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“There was a curse of death about the island.”
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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