- Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, Adventure stories, Presidents
A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral pyre. The Presidential yacht cruises the Potomac night—and the President disappears without a trace. Dirk Pitt takes on a sinister Asian shipping empire in an intercontinental duel of nerves. In his most dangerous, fast-paced adventure, he fights to save the US government—and to seize one desperate moment of revenge!
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Classical in form, unpretentious, relentless and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 470
- Publisher
- Brand: Simon n Schuster (a), TEA Tascabili Editori Associati, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Polish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780671703011
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“BLACK CLOUDS ROLLED menacingly over the sea from Kodiak Island and turned the deep blue-green surface to lead.”
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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