Deep Six (Dirk Pitt Adventure)

by Clive Cussler

Book Overview

Another "impossible to put down" ( Houston Chronicle ) classic Dirk Pitt adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the NUMA Files and the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures. A deadly tide of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671503731
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great brainless summertime read

Clive Cussler has made a very successful career at producing fast paced, entertaining adventures which provide us with a clean cut hero in the form of Dirk Pitt as he finds himself battling yet another villain out to ruin the world.While Cussler's fans, who number in the legions, faithfully purchase each new novel as it comes out, there has been a change in the novels as they have become longer in length, with more exotic locales and more fantastic in their stories. Deep Six is one of the older novels, written in the 1980s, and does not suffer from some of the far fetched coincidences that plague the latest stories. The novel concerns itself with the machinations of the Bougainville Shipping corporation. This Korean based company has used hijacking, bribery and murder to grow to its influential status and has become involved in a plot, with the Soviet Union, to kidnap and brainwash the President of the United States.Into this steps our hero, Dirk Pitt, of the National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA) who loses a friend to one of Bougainville's old crimes. While investigating this crime, he stumbles across the Presidential kidnapping plot. Like most of the Pitt novels, this one motors along at breakneck speed as we are introduced to a surprisingly large cast of characters and spend our time moving between US government figures trying to hide knowledge of the kidnapping plot, Soviet agents aiding and trying to block the success of the kidnapping/brainwashing scheme, a private investigator seeking revenge, and a host of myriad characters. The novel nevers spends long at any one location and there is a refreshing lack of multi-dimensionality. The good guys are always good. They are willing to risk their lives for the cause of truth and justice. The bad guys are uniformly bad with no redeeming qualities. There are, admittedly, gaps in some of the logic and you have to decide to go along for the ride at the beginning of the novel if you hope to enjoy it. However, the novel never strays into fantasy and though it may seem improbable, it never seems unbelieveable.In the later Dirk Pitt stories, the novels are jam packed with extra information as we learn about, among other things, the diamond trade and the trade in illegal antiquities. The earlier novels, like this one, don't seek to educate but merely to entertain. There are no extraneous scenes here, everything happens for a purpose. Simply put, it is a fun adventure. Great for those times when you just want to turn your brain off and live in the moment.For accomplishing all that it seeks to do, this novel rates a 5 stars.

A Book of Books

The book Deep Six is written by Clive Cussler. I think the theme of the book is "love gives you the power to fight for what you beleive". I do agree with the theme, and i think that if you love something or someone that love alone should be enough to get you through the worst of times. It relats to me because I love God and I think that and his love love can get me through anything.What I really liked about this book is that it combines love, action, adventure an things that can't possibly happen in real life all in one book.I also like the fact that it deal with the government, secret missions and things that we don't think can or will happen.Another feature that I liked is that Dirk Pitt, although he works for an Underwater Marine Agency, he still solves crimes, saves someone that he cares about, and saves the U.S. from soviet rule. To do this he has to break the law but it is alright because he works for the government and covers his tracks discretely. Clive Cussler does a good job at, which in my opinion is brilliant, having completely different things at the start of the book and have them all tie together in the end. On page 139 when Admiral Sandecker said when referring to Pitt's press conference, "The President won't see it that way, if he wasn't in New Mexico we would be picking our butts out of the White House carpet." I thouht this was one of the funniest quotes in the book.I would recommend this book to people that like to read things that have suspense and mystery. If you like action and adventure mixed with a little bit of love then this book is one you should read. If those things are not appealing to you then leave this book alone. I say this because all these characteristics intertwine with each other to make this an exhilirating book.

A great story and a whole lot of fun!

I hadn't read a Clive Cussler book for a few years and picked up "Deep Six". I ended up tearing through it in a few days. It reminded me why I like his writing so much. Sometimes Cussler's stories are a bit implausable, but they are a lot of fun. Dirk & Giordiano are a great pair of super agents and their exploits are always thrilling. Dirk always comes through with a way of saving the world at the last minute and gets the girl at the end, a la James Bond. I look forward to reading some more of Cussler's stuff. One last note, it's always neat (although sometimes hard to believe) the way Cussler has Pitt use some object of historical significance to help him out at the end; in this book he uses a Civil War steamboat in a battle in the Gulf of Mexico. These imaginative ideas are what puts Cussler above the rest.

You won't be able to put it down!

My husband handed me a copy of Deep Six about 5 years ago to read the preface, and I never gave it back. I've been hooked on Dirk Pitt ever since. Deep Six is my first and favorite Cussler novel, he knows how to keep the reader interested. Great adventures, you won't want to put them down!

Another piece of sheer entertainment!

Yes, Clive Cussler has done it again. This is one of his best and definitely one of his most entertaining novels. Sheer, non-stop escapism. Forget some of the seemingly far-fetched ideas that seem inspired by James Bond movies and ENJOY! I won`t want to give more plot away, read it for yourselves. This would make a great movie actually.