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Raise the Titanic!

Part of the Dirk Pitt series

  • 373 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1976
  • 44 editions

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1 About this book

The Sicilian Project is the undercover plan of the decade. It is undoubtedly the best-kept secret since the atomic bomb. And it's the President's baby. If successful, it will create a defense network that will insure America's security from foreign attack for the foreseeable future.

The sole hitch is that the project requires a quantity of Byzantium, an extremely rare element. In fact, it looks as though the only Byzantium in the world lies in the hold of R.M.S. Titanic, sunk in 1912 and still resting more than twelve thousand feet deep in the North Atlantic.

The task is simple enough: Raise the Titanic! The man in charge of the mission is Dirk Pitt, jack-of-all-trades and master of-most. Using highly sophisticated submersible equipment, Pitt sets to work at his Herculean job. The presence of two Russian spies doesn't help, nor does the intervention of one very nasty lady, Hurricane Amanda.

Good for readers who want: adventure and spy fiction.

  • Adventure
  • Underwater exploration
  • Espionage
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • Dirk Pitt
  • Sea stories
  • Shipwrecks
  • Titanic (Steamship)

2 About Clive Cussler

1931–2020

Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler was the founder and chairman of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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