So begins the adventure to raise the Titanic!Īll of Cussler’s early heroes are in this one, including Al Giordino who was conspicuously absent in the last romp. When the US Department of Defense requires a small load of a little-known element called byzanium in order to stave off the Russian nuclear threat, this sunken vault appears to be the only known trove of byzanium left on earth. In this case, it’s a miner who locks himself in a vault in the belly of the Titanic just before she dips below the surface. While his earlier works- Pacific Vortex!, The Mediterranean Caper, and Iceberg-were entertaining and introduced his main characters well enough, this fourth novel is an epic by contrast.Ĭussler begins this novel with what later becomes one of his calling cards, a Prologue set at a historical point in time with characters that usually end up dead, taking the secrets of some mystery to their often-watery graves. With the knowledge I have of his writing, both early and late, it’s clear to me why Raise the Titanic! was his breakout novel. Having already read nearly every one of Clive Cussler‘s books, I’m now returning to those ones I’d failed to review.
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