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Raise the Titanic-
Raise
the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
New
York: The Viking Press, (1976)
First published in 1976 by The Viking Press Cloth spine hardcover.
Price on dust jacket $8.95
ISBN # 0-670-58933-0
From the dust jacket, "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. For balance, however, there is one very sweet lady who doesn't
in the least resemble your average marine archaeologist. Clive Cussler
has accomplished a remarkable feat in blending high melodrama with
exhaustively sound scientific research; the Titanic could be raised
today. Mr. Cussler's novel will satisfy the connoisseur of that
doomed liner's incredible history, and it will grip anyone with
a taste for pure adventure."
This
was the "break-out" book for Clive Cussler. Many reader's
will tell you that this is their favorite Clive Cussler novel.
Attention
UK Cussler fans! The DVD for the movie Raise the Titanic was released
on DVD for Region 2 users:
This
picture of the box (with the obvious errors), most notably giving
the credit: "Based on a novel by Adam Kennedy", who did
the screen play, and we all know the Grand Master of Adventure Clive
Cussler wrote the novel.