Product Description

For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos. It's left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker's yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24697 in Books
• Published on: 1988-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
A bestselling author who has had an adventurous life - sought lost gold mines in the American southwest, dived in isolated lakes of the Rocky Mountains for lost aircraft, dived for shipwrecks of historical significance... His latest bestsellers, for Simon & Schuster/Pocket UK are SHOCKWAVE and FLOODTIDE.

Customer Reviews

deep six by clive cussler
i have read clive cussler books before and they are all of the dirk pitt novels. these are my favourite as they are packed with all the elements that are needed to make a good book. deep six is no exception.

fantastic!
This is the first one of his books that I have read, and it would make me go out and buy more. The plot was fast-moving - I couldn't put it down!

An OK holiday read, but that's about it
This is that first Clive Cussler novel that I've read, and the best way I think I can summarise it would be to say that it's a fast moving story that's thin on detail and doesn't require the reader to engage brain other than to deal with poor grammar. It has a kind of "Boy's Own Adventure" feel and it's therefore perfect for a poolside sun-lounger read.

The characterisation is weak, and I was left with no real affinity for Dirk Pitt, the lead character. In fact, I found him to be an irritating, over Americanised cross between James Bond/Steven Segal/Jack Bauer.

The ending was poor too, but I suppose that Dirk Pitt had to walk away from justice so that Cussler could churn out another few thousand pages about him.

I left my copy behind for the next hotel guest...