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  • Pacific Vortex!

  • By: Clive Cussler
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (531 ratings)

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Pacific Vortex!

By: Clive Cussler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's summary

A Sunday Times best seller

The thrilling first Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.

Fully armed and with all hands onboard, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing...until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt finds a single chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck.

'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain....'

A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the captain's final scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex!

©2017 Clive Cussler (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group
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Critic reviews

"Cussler is hard to beat." ( Daily Mail)
"Clive Cussler is the guy I read." (Tom Clancy)
"The Adventure King." ( Daily Express)

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Finally the beginning

I have all but the first four Dirk novel. Finally the first. No disappointment, the story as fantastical as all the rest but totally on the fringe of believable
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Martha

I enjoyed this book. Dirk Pitts first appearance. Can’t wait to hear more of his stories

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descriptions

great story
However no person can withstand that much injury no matter how fit. needs to be more realistic.

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the attention to detail

I loved the book. I can't wait to listen to the entire Dirk Pitt series.

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Love Dirk

Always good to read a NUMA chronicle.

Nice seeing how they got the team together

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Overall, a creative plotline.

The plot line was overall very creative. The character development was good. The narration was outstanding, as is ALWAYS the case with Scott Brick. On the negative side, the writer could have evolved from using Neanderthal terms such as “wop“ when referring to the gentleman of Italian descent, or “Oriental“ which refers to objects, not people. I will give the author’s work another try when the next one comes out.

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Captivating story!

Such an imaginative story with fast moving plot. The reader is never bored as the plot moves quickly and the characters are unusual and interesting.

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Packed full of adventure

This was my first Clive Cussler book. Wow, am I glad to have discovered this author. The story had me sitting at the edge of my seat. If you are looking for a fast paced, to the point adventure, this is the book. I cannot wait to dive into the second book in this series.

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Clive Cussler does it again. If you are hooked on his books as much as I am, you will love these complex and exciting exploits of Dirk and Al.

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Pacific vortex

Clive Cussler great story teller right from the beginning, I’ve so looked forward for the release of this first titles pacific vortex is in a long line of Dirk Pitt novels which take you to a time and place long gone in modern the day, where chivalry and sense of fair play have been lost.

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