Deep Six (Bookcassette(r) Edition)

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Summary: Great brainless summertime read
Review: 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.

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Summary: First of the Best
Review: Deep Six in itself is not a great book - the story takes a couple hundred pages to get into the main plot, which itself is clouded with implausibility. Nevertheless, Deep Six has a brilliantly crafted tale of political intrigue, which can be at times quite suspenseful, making the book hard to put down. The plot was rather predictable, but not lacking in the action department that we come to expect from Dirk Pitt. Deep Six was the first novel, in my opinion, that started Cussler's best period of writing. The novels that were to follow, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, et al. shows that Cussler gets better with each novel he writes.

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Summary: Another Dirk Pitt Victory
Review: Deep Six is another winner for Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt. Pitt once again gets tangled up in a web of international intrigue that this time involves the President of the United States and his successors. Starting out with the investigation of a nerve agent leaking into the North Pacific, Pitt discovers a sinister Korean shipping company responsible for the nerve agent and the kidnapped President. In a conclusion that sends Pitt and his trusted side kick Giordino to the Mississippi Delta to fight along side weekend warriors clad in Civil War uniforms, Pitt once again saves the day. This book is a thrill a minute whose conclusion grips you through the end.

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Summary: The Review
Review: Dirk Pitt wanders through an epic journey involving nerve gas, political kidnapping, mind control, and not one, but two evil powers. Key to the plot is the takeover of the US government. As a retired USAF officer, I was dismayed to see the military fall in line with dictatorial control (they are sworn to uphold the Constitution, rather than the President). The rescue involving the Lousiana "good ole boys" was particularly fun to read. Overall, the Washington leaders were portrayed with somewhat juvenile characters, but nevertheless, the story is fun.

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Summary: A great story and a whole lot of fun!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Sam M./Miller Place NY
Review: i have read most of the dirk pitt books and this was not one of my favorites. it was good and had all the typical stuff, just not as gripping.

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Summary: Cussler pens Another One
Review: i read this book after having seen my teacher with it and having read the back cover...what a COOL story...the whole political plot is intriguing and makes this book a page turner...add some definite Cussler-esque action...and you have another brillian Dirk Pitt novel...andy adventure fan will love this, and even more if you're familiar with the world of Dirk Pitt and NUMA

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Summary: Almost Too Much Fun
Review: Ridiculous beyond belief? Yes. Fun? Oh yeah. The King of thriller fluff tops himself with this one. Put your brain on hold and you'll have lots of fun reading Deep Six. There is so much going on here it's amazing. And the ending is worth three Hollywood movies.

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Summary: A Book of Books
Review: 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.

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Summary: Sam M./Miller Place NY
Review: This book starts off with a prelude. The prelude starts with a lady named Arta Casilighios who worked at a bank. One day she was walking and she found a lost passport with the name of Estelle Wallace. She slipped the passport in her purse and took it home. She took time to change her looks so she could look as closely as possible to Estelle Wallace. She has a plan to steal a money from her bank when everyones gone so she can move away and change her name. She gains a total of 128,000 dollars. She looks in the paper and looks for departures of ships that are leaving out of San Francisco. Arta chooses the ship the San Marino a old strong cargo ship from 1943. While she's on the boat the whole crew is a Korean crew, and one nite while she is sleeping some one of the Korean crewmembers comes and kills her.

Along the West coast up towards Alaska there is a weird chemical in the water that is killing off boats and people that go near it. The president of the United Sates of America is planing a boat trip on the Eagle a boat that every president has had important meetings on since Theodore Roosevelt. None of the secret service men don't think this is a good idea because of the chemical that is spreading in the water that once some one touches they are dead instantly. So they call Dirk Pit. A James Bond type of character that is going to help solve the chemical problem and make sure that the president doesn't get hurt. The president is goes on the Eagle to discuss some kind of plan with the Soviet Union, on the boat is the same Korean crew guy that killed Arta Casilighios. Dirk Pitt is on another boat trailing the Eagle and making sure nothing happens. Then one night The Eagle is missing and can't find it. There is a plan that captured the boat, and now find out the Soviet Union is behind this to.

I really like this book because it had two of my favorite genres in one. It was a mystery but also a action book. This book made me want to keep on reading because I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

I would recommend this book to whoever likes mystery and action books. I think people would like this book because it makes you think and wonder what is going to happen next