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Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is put to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex—a fog-shrouded area where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome supersub Starbuck, bearing America’s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt’s job is to find it and salvage it before international forces beat him to the prize or the sea explodes in a nuclear blast—whichever comes first. Pitt’s mission also leads him into the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous woman ever to enter his life. As the countdown heads toward disaster, Pitt has no choice but to descend through the shark-infested depths to an ancient sunken island, from which he may never again emerge to see the light of day.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
older book purchase,
This review is from: Pacific Vortex (Mass Market Paperback)
Ordered second hand older book and received in great condition and very timely delivery. Will definitely order again..Great way to find books no longer in print..
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lotsa fun, vintage nostalgiac Cussler, but missing a piece!,
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This review is from: Pacific Vortex (Mass Market Paperback)
Obviously, this being the first-ever Dirk Pitt novel, this book has nostalgiac historical significance for us Clive Cussler fans. I first read this book 18 years ago when I was a mere 6th-grader, so re-reading it now I have a sense of perspective I didn't have then, especially on the military stuff (since I've been in the USAF for almost 5 years as I write this).One thing I notice from re-reading "Pacific Vortex" as well as Clive's other oldies-but-goodies like "Raise the Titanic!" and "Vixen 03" is that they're a lot more graphic in terms of descriptions of physical violence and salty language (in terms of both profanity and sexual innuendo) compared with his newer stuff like "Trojan Odyssey" and "Valhalla Rising;" is this a sign of ol' Clive getting more mellow with age? But as "a reader from Bordentown" has already pointed out, there's a big missing piece: in all the sequels, Cussler always refers to Pitt's ill-fated true love, Summer Moran . . . yet upon reading this book, there's no love scene with Dirk and Summer . . . so how the heck did Summer indeed turn about to be the father of his two kids? Perhaps it was an oversight on Cussler's part when he wrote the book, rookie error as he rushed to finish the manuscript, perhaps? Fun stuff all the same!
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A 'hairy barrel chest' and other traits of a superagent,
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This review is from: Pacific Vortex (Mass Market Paperback)
Dirk Pitt. Seriously. If this book hadn't been written 30 years ago - and ten years before it was finally published - I would swear that Clive Cussler's name of his lead character Dirk Pitt was an obvious wink to Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights") and Brad Pitt (in anything). I can't think of another "Dirk" or "Pitt" that comes anywhere close. He's suave, he's cool, he's - updated for the 80s - wearing "brief white bathing trunks" when first we meet him. And he's sunbathing, no less.Mr. Pitt - Dirk, not Brad - has starred in 17 of Cussler's swashbuckling adventure thrillers. (Cussler wrote "Pacific Vortex!" first, though it was not published until 1982 when Dirk Pitt was a fixture on the best seller's list. According to "Dirk Pitt Revealed," Cussler's 1998 concordance/encyclopedia of all things Dirk Pitt, "Pacific Vortex!" was initially deemed a weak first effort.) I was tempted to start with "Flood Tide" (1997) or "Atlantis Found" (1999), recent best sellers that are plentiful in paperback and in the remainder bins, but I like my genre novels to unfold in the order the author intended. But enough exposition: Dirk Pitt is a star in "Pacific Vortex!," and a star for reasons Cussler never intended. He's rugged, debonair and likes the ladies, to be sure, but he screams 80s louder than a Boy George t-shirt. In the picturesque opening scene, Dirk Pitt is sunbathing in those brief white bathing trunks on a Hawaiian beach. As he naps, "[t]he hairy barrel chest that rose slightly with each intake of air, bore specks of sweat that rolled downward in snaillike trails and mingled with the sand." Oh, my. While I read, I alternately imagined him as Tom Selleck circa "Magnum, P.I." and Ben Stiller in "Starsky & Hutch," the real and the surreal - the yin and yang - versions of the 80s man. The obvious comparison is James Bond, and it's a fair one. Dirk Pitt is comfortable schmoozing over cocktails. In the most unintentionally hilarious scene of the book, two women are literally fighting over Dirk while he suavely sips scotch. "The bruise beneath her right eye had begun the transformation from red to purple, and a small cut on her lower lip unleashed a few drops of blood that trickled down her chin, falling with precise accuracy down the cleavage between her breasts. Pitt still thought she was the most desirably woman he'd ever seen." Enough said. Oddly, there are no bow-chick-a-wow-wow scenes, but you know Dirk's gettin' some. The "sexy" scenes are usually of the slow-motion-body-shimmering-in-the-moonlight variety. Most are hysterical.
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