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Trojan Odyssey: A Dirk Pitt Novel
Clive Cussler
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Hardcover,
November 2003
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Product Details:
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ISBN:
0399150803
Format: Hardcover, 496pp
Pub. Date: November 2003 |
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Publisher:
Putnam Adult
Rangana Bookstore Sales Rank: 20
Series:
Dirk Pitt Series |
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From the Publisher |
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Long hailed as the grand master of
adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound
with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of
his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his
most audacious work yet.
In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt
discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he
had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born
to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake.
Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer,
is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a
marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father
in the adventure of a lifetime.
There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of
Nicaragua. The twins are working in a NUMA(r) underwater
enclosure, trying to determine its origin, when two
startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact,
something strange and beautiful and ancient; and the worst
storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight not
only for them but also for a luxurious floating resort hotel
square in its path.
The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable, and,
desperately, Pitt, Al Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA(r)
crew rush to the rescue, but what they find in the storm's
wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For
there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the
world, and the brown tide is only a by-product of its plan.
Soon, its work will be complete-and the world will be a very
different place.
Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is
already a very different place...
Filled with breathtaking action and suspense, Trojan
Odyssey is Cussler at the height of his storytelling
powers.
Author Biography: Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor
of twenty-four other books, including the Dirk Pitt(r)
adventure Valhalla Rising, the Kurt Austin novel
White Death, the nonfiction The Sea Hunters II,
and the new paperback original The Golden Buddha.
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From The Critics |
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Publisher's Weekly
Adventure tales for boys (and girls) of all ages have no
more vigorous champion today than Cussler, who has kept the
spirit of Joe and Frank Hardy alive, albeit on a grander
scale, in numerous bestsellers. This 17th Dirk Pitt
extravaganza finds Cussler (literally, as he makes a cameo
at book's end) and his entourage of paint-by-number
characters in fine fettle, foiling a dastardly plot by
outlandish villains to launch a new ice age, and at the same
time demonstrating that the Achaeans were not Greeks but
Celts, and that Troy was a town in what's now England. After
a prelude set during the Trojan War, the novel proper starts
with a roar, as a monstrous hurricane sweeps toward the
Caribbean, endangering not only Pitt's twin son and
daughter, engaged in undersea exploration, but also the
Ocean Wanderer, a luxury floating hotel owned by a
mysterious billionaire known as Specter. In a manly manner,
Pitt and his longtime sidekick, Al Giordino, both of NUMA
(the National Underwater and Marine Agency), save the hotel
and Pitt's grown kids, but not before those kids discover a
trove of underwater relics that indicate that the Celts, aka
Achaeans, reached the New World millennia ago. And the Celts
are still here, in the guise of a female Druidic cult linked
to Specter and aiming for world domination by altering ocean
currents via a vast underground mechanism in Nicaragua,
which will plunge the earth into cold, then selling a new
type of cheap fuel cell to supply needed heat. The action
never flags, the heroics never halt and the bodies pile up
as Pitt and Co. take on the villains; some big changes in
Pitt's personal life close the book. Cussler's legions of
fans are going to march into bookstores the day this title
appears; expect whopping sales. 750,000 first printing;
$750,000 ad/promo. (Nov.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business
Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Clive the Mighty has found a formula for his terrific
escapist plots and sees no reason to alter it. Introductory
historical diversions seemingly have no tie to the story-and
yet a solar boat from ancient Egypt or a recovered Viking
vessel may explain why a modern luxury liner that runs on
seawater gets sunk by international villains, as in Valhalla
Rising (2001). At the end of Valhalla, the faintly aging
Dirk finds that he has two children by a long-dead lover:
the 23-year-old fraternal twins Summer, now a marine
biologist, and Dirk, a marine engineer, both waterfolk like
himself and ready to join him in his NUMA (National
Underwater Maritime Administration) adventures. Things open
with a brilliantly detailed description of the fall of Troy,
turning mere legend about the wooden horse into matters of
engineering, and filling the reader's mind with Homeric
facts to be recalled later. Cusslerian historical mystery:
young Summer Pitt, spending ten days with Dirk Jr. in an
underwater lab off the Navidad Bank of the Dominican
Republic while investigating a horrible brown muck that's
killing coral and fish, finds a sunken Bronze Age amphor
determined to be from Gaul, about 3,000 years old, with
encrustation proving that it landed on this very sea-bottom
Way Back Then. Impossible! But then Summer and Dirk find an
underwater ghost temple. Instead of an imperiled luxury
liner, Cussler erects nearby the supremely luxurious Ocean
Wanderer-a floating underwater resort hotel-which is hit by
Hurricane Lizzie, an axe-wielding storm with 100-foot waves
and winds of 250 mph. Can NUMA's Sea Sprite evacuate 1,100
souls from the hotel? And Dirk and Summer, running out of
air, need rescuing as well! Plus,what's this spreading
killer muck? It will take Dirk Sr. himself and sidekick Al
Giordino to unmask the roly-poly villain Specter, save
Summer from the Homeric Amazon priestesses who want to
sacrifice her, and explain Specter's secret tunnels under
Nicaragua. Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous. First
printing of 750,000; $750,000 ad/promo. Agent: Peter Lampack/Peter
Lampack Agency
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Number of Reviews: 3 Average
Rating:
JAH, A reviewer, November 3, 2003,
Dirk Pitt is back!
Having read Golden Buddha recently (which I was very
disappointed with), I wasn't sure I wanted to read Trojan
Odyssey, so I let my father-in-law read it first. When he
told me he thought it was Clive's best Dirk Pitt book yet, I
was intrigued. I began reading and was soon so entranced
with it, I couldn't put it down. Every spare moment I had, I
picked this up to continue reading. I have to say that Clive
is truly back in form, his writing is superfluous, his
research impeccable. He breathes life into every one of his
characters, no matter how short a 'life' they have. Although
fiction, Clive has a knack for making the implausible
possible. The story begins with a hurricane of unheard
magnitude that devastates the shores off Nicaragua and
almost kills hundreds of people in a luxury floating hotel,
not to mention Pitt's twin children, Summer and Dirk, who
are conducting research in an underwater enclosure in the
hurricane's path. And this is just the beginning. There are
evil red-headed women to contend with, a link to the story
Homer made famous in The Odyssey, the opposite of global
warming and a little bit of romance thrown in (but not too
much for you diehard Dirk Pitt fans). I have a soft spot for
Night Probe, but Trojan Odyssey is easily the next best Dirk
Pitt adventure yet. Thank you, Clive, for making up for the
abysmal Golden Buddha. Dirk Pitt fans unite and buy this
book!
JA Hitchcock, a fellow writer, October 22, 2003,
Cussler is back on track!
Having read Golden Buddha recently (which I was very
disappointed with), I wasn't sure I wanted to read Trojan
Odyssey, so I let my father-in-law read it first. When he
told me he thought it was Clive's best Dirk Pitt book yet, I
was intrigued. I began reading and was soon so
entranced with it, I couldn't put it down. Every spare
moment I had, I picked this up to continue reading. I have
to say that Clive is truly back in form, his writing is
superfluous, his research impeccable. He breathes life into
every one of his characters, no matter how short a 'life'
they have. Although fiction, Clive has a knack for making
the implausible possible. The story begins with a
hurricane of unheard magnitude that devastates the shores
off Nicaragua and almost kills hundreds of people in a
luxury floating hotel, not to mention Pitt's twin children,
Summer and Dirk, who are conducting research in an
underwater enclosure in the hurricane's path. And this is
just the beginning. There are evil red-headed women to
contend with, a link to the story Homer made famous in The
Odyssey, the opposite of global warming and a little
bit of romance thrown in (but not too much for you diehard
Dirk Pitt fans). I have a soft spot for Night Probe, but
Trojan Odyssey is easily the next best Dirk Pitt adventure
yet. Thank you, Clive, for making up for the abysmal Golden
Buddha. Dirk Pitt fans unite and buy this book!
Also recommended: White Death by Clive Cussler, The
Last Mission by Jim B. Smith, Net Crimes & Misdemeanors by
J.A. Hitchcock
A reviewer, A reviewer, September 30, 2003,
Great action-adventure tale
It�fs been two years since Dirk Pitt discovered that he had
two grown fraternal twin children Dirk and Summer who he
loves dearly. They, like their father, love the ocean and
work for NUMA where they investigate toxic contamination
that is destroying the fragile sea life in the Caribbean
ecosystem. While taking samples underwater, they discover a
man made palace that sunk to the bottom of the sea millennia
ago. While NUMA scientists analyze the find, the twins head
to an island off of Guadeloupe to see if a sailing
expedition lies beneath the waters and if so is it from the
same era that was found in the Caribbean. Their father is
saving a floating hotel from a force five hurricane before
going to Nicaragua where the toxic contamination seems to be
originating from. He finds a company owned by a mysterious
four hundred pound man is working with the Chinese to
construct underground tunnels that will connect one ocean to
another. When he learns what the tunnels will be used for,
he and the U.S. government try to stop them without creating
an international incident. Clive Cussler always writes an
exciting action thriller that appeals to readers of both
genders. Pitt is a modern day James Bond who hooks the
readers into hoping that his heroic acts won�ft get him
killed. The hero realizes with a family to care for he can�ft
take so many chances and is prepared to change his
lifestyle. In the last part of the book, the protagonist
feels he will cross paths with his enemy once more implying
hopefully that there will be more Dirk Pitt novels in the
future. Harriet Klausn |
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