Pacific Vortex!
Dirk Pitt’s First Adventure
Clive Cussler, Michael Pritchard
Readers rate it 3.5 (90 on Hardcover)
270 pages · Released Oct 1, 1984 · Bantam
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Pacific Vortex! is a classic adventure thriller centered on an undersea rescue mystery with action-adventure conventions typical of 1980s spy and adventure fiction. The story involves some tense moments, mysterious deaths, and underwater danger, but violence is not graphically depicted. The protagonist Dirk Pitt models curiosity, bravery, and problem-solving, making it suitable for older middle-grade and teen readers who enjoy adventure; younger readers may find the mystery elements and tense tone somewhat intense.
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From the publisher
Fully armed and with all hands on board, 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 Star... Fully armed and with all hands on board, 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!
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- Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Underwater exploration
- Heroes
- Pitt, dirk (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Large type books
- Fiction, sea stories
- Nuclear submarines
- Dirk Pitt (Fictional character)
- Rescues
- Plot driven
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ISBN 9780553276329 · Bantam