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Pacific Vortex!

By: Clive Cussler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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About this listen

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 Action & Adventure Scary Submarine

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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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Austin Powers meets Magnum !
Bit far fetched and remote in time, but very well written and entertaining.

Quite good

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Boys own paper might like this story, I did not.
Too many times the hero survived impossible situations, a bit like Richard Hanney and his chums.
OK for light entertainment, but not interesting enough for a serious read by a grown up person.

too many "lucky" events

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An excellent story with good characters and different action to many books. I unhesitatingly recommend.

Interesting throughout.

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I have read, and now heard, several Clive Cussler novels. I can honestly say that I have enjoyed my escapes with each and every one.
Thank you Mr Cussler.

Dirk Pitt adventure

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Absolutely fucking awesome!!! Clive can do no wrong. He knows how to paint with words, well at least for me. Keep doing what you're doing!

Brilliant!!!!

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