Vixen 03

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Summary: A Gripping Book!
Review: Rhese are the types of books that are designed to scare you. You have an airplane containing a deadly gas dissapearing. Finallour hero Dirk Pitt discovers the missing plane at the bottom of a lake in Colorado. Upon diving into the sunken plane Dirk discovers that two cannisters of the death gas are gone. This story then develops into an all out effote by Pitt to stop a terrorist act from being launched on Washington D.C. The terrorists are racing down the Potomac with the deadly gas in hand. Our hero Dirk Pitt finally prevails. An edge of your seat thriller. Buy this book and read it. You will not be dissapointed.

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Summary: Whiz-bang action a-plenty!
Review: Take Dirk Pitt on vacation with lover Loren Smith, showing her the kind of fishing where you don`t need a reel(nice one Clive!). Add together a Boeing Stratocruiser which crashed in an unknown water in 1954. A dead body in the sunken wreck and two missing cannisters of a doomsday virus. Next, you have Patrick Fawkes, who is desperate for revenge after his wife and children are torched on their South African farm by a renegade group of extremists. Add to that a sleaze political blackmail scandal involving the Americans funding the African terrorists to prevent all-out conflict, hidden killers lurking around each corner out to stop Dirk and co, the battleship USS Iowa being purchased and stripped but what for? As the plot unfolds, the action explodes as Fawkes threatens to attack Washington and it is up to Dirk to stop him, of course! Wild and relentless action, witty one-liners and all our favourite NUMA characters (but where was Hiram Yaeger and St. Julian Perlmutter?) we can fit in, and you once again have another Cussler action classic. Hmm, F-120 Specter jets with Satan missiles? Holographic communications? It all adds to Clive`s inventive imagination, seeing as this book was written at the end of the 1970s and set in 1988. And it all adds to the fun!

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Summary: Dirk Pitt to the rescue.
Review: The book Vixen 03 starts quickly and continues to move at a fast pace throughout the story. Dirk Pitt is the kind of man who women dream of but can never find. There is always a beautiful woman in the stories, who knows she must take whatever he gives before he "rides off into the sunset". In the very beginning of the book,the story of Vixen 03 seems to be true and then when the plot is explained to the reader, the story line moves quickly. As usual Dirk comes to the rescue and saves the country. Of course, Dirk is bigger than life and does things in a big way but it is fun to read about someone who does things well. The everyday troubles of life are not what I want to read about. I want to have someone to dream about and take me away from the everyday problems.

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Summary: TOO MUCH TALK
Review: This book started out really good. Out of all the beggining were a ship was destroyed this had the best. AT first i thought that it was just getting off to a slow start. I thought that with all this boring stuff that they would at least put on a great ending action part. I was wrong. This has Giorodino in it for about two secounds, and Dirk Pitt takes forever to fight in the end. I have enjoyed all other Dirk Pitt books that I have read except Raise the Titanic. So Check out the other ones and forget about this one.

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Summary: Not his best
Review: This is one of Cussler's oldies that I missed. "Vixen O3" is not one of Cussler's best because many of the chapters deal with the politics of the African Army of Revolution attempting to overthrow the white government in South Africa. These "political sections" of the book tend to take some of the energy away from the overall story. I'm used to reading about Dirk Pitt's undersea and airborne adventures. Every time the story went back to politics, I became bored and couldn't wait until I reached a chapter that had Pitt and his fellow NUMA comrades in it. This is not a problem in the later Pitt books. Despite the weaknesses just mentioned, the politics of the story mesh well with the
interesting parts of the story near the end of the book. Compared to "Raise the Titanic", this book about the salvaging of the plane (the Vixen 03) at the bottom of a Colorado lake should be better. Unfortuately, the salvage began and ended within a five-page chapter. I really like the undersea adventures that take place in Cussler's books. I felt cheated when the whole salvage operation took place in such a short time. While still a worthwhile read It is one of Cussler's weaker efforts.

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Summary: Vixen 03 327 pages
Review: Vixen 03 is a Dirk Pitt action/adventure that takes you through a riveting maze of the world of Dirk Pitt, the director of special operations of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency). In this book, Dirk Pitt finds the underwater wreckage of Vixen 03, a plane carrying 36 Doomsday bombs that carry a deadly disease that could kill millions of people in a matter of minutes. But when he lifts the plane, 2 of the deadly bombs are missing. Then Dirk Pitt finds out where they are: they are in the hands of a terrorist group, planning to make a move to a major breach in Americas security: Washington DC and the Potomac River. Dirk Pitt is a winding maze with suspense and surprise at every turn. I would recommend it to anybody looking for a good action adventure.

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Summary: The best book ive ever read!
Review: Vixen 03 is a great book!!!! ive read iceberg and vixen 03 Iceberg was excellent but Vixen 03 is the best book ive ever read! it has tons of action and cussler does a great job of making a story for each and every character!

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Summary: I don't know if this was the usual Cussler fare.
Review: When I started Vixen03, I thought I'd get some oldtime, classic Clive. Instead, after reading about 200 pages of it, I wasn't so sure what I was reading. Sure Dirk gets it on with Loren, drives his old car around, and fights off some old geezers, but it wasn't the same. The transition between Africa and the American parts left me wondering what was going on. oooo, the psychosamatic white guy living in Africa whose family was torched was really disturbed. So what. I'd read 10 pages and still be back at square one. Who really cares about what the stupid African kingpin was doing anyway? It didn't even say if he was involved! In conclusion, Vixen 03 was probably the boringest Pitt novel I've read.