- Invasions, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, Treasure troves
THE PRICELESS SPLENDORS OF A LOST CIVILIZATION . . . AN ANCIENT SHIP FOUND IN GREENLAND ’S FROZEN WASTE LANDS . . . A SCHEME THAT WOULD PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO BLOODY CHAOS! Charts of lost gold . . . breathtaking art and rare volumes . . . maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the balance of power in the world. DIRK PITT ® discovers a secret trail to the treasures of Alexandria—and is plunged into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the government of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. From East to West, anarchists are reaching their deadly tentacles into the very heart of the United States. Now Pitt is up against the most feared assassin known to man. An international band of terrorists is making its play for power on the high seas— and Pitt is the only man alive who can stop them. (from Amazon)
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Classical in form, epic, unpretentious and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 608
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Chivers Press, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- Italian, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9788497938778
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“No one paid the slightest attention to the pilot as he slipped around the crowd of media correspondents who overflowed from the interior of the VIP lounge.”
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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