- Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, action & adventure
Just seventy-two hours ago, Dirk Pitt was lying in the hot California sun with a beautiful woman, a Scotch-rocks in one hand, but an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker, his commander at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), brings Pitt out of the warm Pacific breezes and straight into a North Atlantic deep freeze.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Berkley, Books On Tape, Warner
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- English, tur, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780727803634
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“Lieutenant Commander Lee Koski clamped his teeth a notch tighter on the stem of a corncob pipe, jammed his knotted fists two inches deeper in his fur-lined wind-breaker and shivered in the intense cold.”
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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