Atlantis Found (Dirk Pitt, No. 15)
by Clive Cussler
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Author: Clive CusslerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN: 0425177173
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of Atlantis Found (Dirk Pitt, No. 15)
Book Review: Probably biased, but still...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is easily my favorite novel of all time.
Now, that tends to be a hefty statement, so let me explain:
This was the very first Clive Cussler novel I'd ever read. In fact, it was the first 'adult' novel I'd ever read. I'd dabbled with the classics like Tom Sawyer and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but this was my gateway into contemporary. And after the prologue I was hooked.
Not only was this book the gateway drug that's lead to me reading every single novel Cussler ever put into print (as well as branching off into everything written by Jack DuBrul and Craig Dirgo, who sometimes co-authored with Cussler) but it got me hooked on the need to read every book I could get my hands on.
Even though Harry Potter is the primary cause of inspiring reading in most people my age, I didn't start that series until AFTER this book lit a fire under my ass. And I doubt there's any other reason I would have slugged through The Lord of the Rings in its entirety.
As to the story itself: I found it to be solid and well-written, one of the last great pieces Mr. Cussler gave us before so many of his latest novels found themselves on the receiving end of unfavorable reviews.
But in all honesty, there's little else I can say while trying to explain my love of this novel. Someone may call it the worst piece of trash ever written, but it will always and forever hold the title of my all-time favorite book.
Despite some of Clive's recent faults and hit-or-misses, I can personally attest to his having changed at least ONE life by converting what is sure to be a lifelong reader.
I'd like to think of that as something for an author to be proud of.
Summary of Atlantis Found (Dirk Pitt, No. 15)
A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion.
A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship.
Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient mystery with devastating modern consequences, and a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known. Now, he is racing to save not only his life?but the world. The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between the earth and Armageddon?
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
Dirk Pitt, indestructible hero of 14 previous Clive Cussler novels and special-projects director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (which is something like the CIA of the ocean depths), makes James Bond look like a tuxedoed, martini-swilling poseur. Pitt has raised the Titanic, escaped massive volcanic eruptions, ducked nuclear explosions, foiled criminal plans for world domination, saved everyone on earth from germ warfare, and mastered the ins and outs of various electronic gizmos and futuristic vehicles while evading every imaginable form of almost certain death. (Of course, he's also wildly successful with brilliant, beautiful women, but in an admirably circumspect, sensitive-guy way.) It stands to reason Pitt's the right man to handle a crisis of millennial proportions.
When mysterious black obsidian skulls and other artifacts of an exceedingly ancient culture begin to turn up in odd places, Pitt jumps in with both feet. It soon becomes dangerously apparent that a powerful, amoral group of fanatics calling itself the Fourth Empire wants the strange discoveries to remain underground. Pitt teams up with a beautiful red-haired expert in ancient languages to decipher the meaning of the artifacts. They were made 10 millennia ago in a then-temperate Antarctica by a seafaring civilization advanced enough to predict its own destruction by a comet impact. Now the Fourth Empire (whose literal and figurative progenitor comes as no surprise) is predicting a similar disaster in only a matter of months, and preparing to take control of the earth.
Cussler's known for hands-on research--his hobbies are the backbone of Pitt's adventures: flying, climbing, diving, racing. The scientific and historical riffs that fill in the background of Atlantis Found are the weakest parts of the book--they're Pitt-less, and they give every discovery in the book away early. But what the heck--Cussler's not the king of suspense, he's the emperor of nonstop action. Atlantis Found bounces along on a good-humored techno-joyride, and for Cussler's legion of fans, that will be more than enough. --Barrie Trinkle
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