FLOOD TIDE

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Summary: Pitt is the tops!!!
Review: I have read all of the Dirk Pitt adventures, and consider myself to be a huge fan. While this novel (like the others) may lack character depth and intricate plot lines, it more than makes up for the lack with page after page of lightning fast adventure. Mr. Cussler, as always, manages to create antagonistic characters so vile that one is actually glad to see them come to such gruesome and painful endings. I thouroughly enjoyed this book, as will any fan of Dirk Pitt or action/adventure stories.

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Summary: Cussler is back
Review: After being let down by 'Incan Gold' and 'Shockwave' Cussler has come back with a good story. Dirk is his usual "role model" self and the villian is enjoyably evil. The plot is timely and borderlines on believability. It is also good to see that Cussler remembers the Great Lakes and the contributions they have made to increasing the number of shipwrecks. This is the perfect gloomy day book. If "Promise Keepers" didn't inspire your manhood, this surely will.

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Summary: Typical Dirk Pitt Adventure
Review: Flood Tide is your typical Dirk Pitt adventure. If you are looking for something more, look elsewhere, however, if you've enjoyed past Pitt books, you'll like this one. More of the same, with the exception that Flood Tide is slightly more "real". In other words, I finished the book without saying "I can't believe Dirk survived in the heart of a nuclear explosion", or "I can't believe Dirk lived after swimming 50 miles of an underground river." :-) I enjoyed reading it.

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Summary: Another Clive classic to read with band-aids on all fingers
Review: Being a native of the Crescent City, it made Clive's latest that more interesting. It was nice to have Dirk underwater again. (I don't think he submerged during Shock Wave) It seems the latest Dirk was a kinder and gentler sort. Missed Loren, hope she's still in the big picture. Only negative of the book was like every other Pitt adventure.............It ended

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Summary: good read
Review: Clive Cussler and his alter ego Dirk Pitt once again thrill and amaze, with impossible situations resolved by incredible feats. Here we have a fictional US President taking money fron Chinese villains to look the other way, maybe not a fictional Prez after all.A very good read.

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Summary: ho hum
Review: Although I am a big Dirk fan, I felt that this book fell flat. It just never seemed to catch fire. I enjoyed the total lunacy of 'Sahara' so much more.

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Summary: Clive Cussler has once again written an award winning book!
Review: This book was another testimony to the brilliance of Clive Cussler. He is truly one of the most predominant thriller writers of our time. I can't wait for the next one to come out because I read this one in less than 24 hours.

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Summary: Dirk Pit is Back!
Review: After Shock Wave I was afraid our intrepid hero was headed for retirement. Flood Tide is a page turner filled with Action, Action, Action a good helping of maritime history, despicable characters, Washington politics, and romance and no sign of retirement for either Dirk or Al. Even if you figure out where the ship and treasure are you'll keep reading to the very end. So, get out your Atlas and follow the adventures of the NUMA crew and the heroes of sea. As always I hated to have it end.

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Summary: Dirk and Al save America again!
Review: You can't beat Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino for a great adventure. Dirk is as usual his larger than life self. He and Al always manage to escape certain death, stomp the evil-doer and protect truth, justice and the American way! Am I complaining? No way, that is what makes his books so entertaining. You know that evil will not triumph and that Dirk and Al will come through being little wrose for the wear. Cussler does all that and can make the technical data interesting too. All, in all, a terrific way to spend a few hours!
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Summary: Cussler is Always Fun
Review: One reads a Dirk Pitt adventure for a fun time. Farfetched plot, laughable dialog, stereotypical characters - it's all here and more as Dirk and Al save America from another evil mastermind out of a 1940's casting agency. Those who are fans will forgive Cussler for this less- entertaing- than- usual effort and enjoy it like a visit with old friends. It is not great literature, just good fun.