Publisher Description

A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last . . .



Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever.



Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action and suspense.

Notes

* More nailbiting adventure from Cussler's thrilling hero, Dirk Pitt.

Author Biography

A bestselling author who has had an adventurous life - sought for lost gold mines in the American southwest, dived in isolated lakes of the Rocky Mountains for lost aircraft, dived for shipwrecks of historical significance...His latest bestsellers, for Simon & Schuster/Pocket UK are SHOCKWAVE and FLOODTIDE.

Review

'A great adventure thriller which spins from one dizzying climax to another...riveting...simply super and very cleverly done' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Kirkus US Review

This is already making waves - a $40,000 advertising budget; $800,000 paperback sale, and guess what it will look like in shuddering Sensurround. Acutally it's not all that different from Iceberg (1975) and features the same hero, Dirk Pitt, insuperable in every situation, but it's a better story even if overabundantly plotted. The year is 1987 when the US has narrowed its search for byzanium (an esoteric metal like radium which can assure a perfect defense system and peace in our time) to a hold in the Titanic. Gene Seagram is working on this Sicilian Project; it gets a lot of interference along with that of Seagram's Dana who feels it interrupts her marriage. But the President decides to salvage the old ship. At the first 12,000 feet down a man is killed which warns them that the Russians aren't coming, they're there. So they are and it takes some doing to bring the Titanic into safe harbor with some of the fanfare of Op Sail. Wife Dana's aboard her for reasons best known to the author like a need for romance. However, watch it, since a readership which won't stop to come up for air has been indicated. (Kirkus Reviews)

Long Description

A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last . . . Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever. Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action and suspense.

Review Quote

A great adventure thriller which spins from one dizzying climax to another...riveting...simply super and very cleverly done - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Promotional "Headline"

* More nailbiting adventure from Cussler's thrilling hero, Dirk Pitt.

Description for Sales People

Major film released in November 1980

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