Vixen

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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: 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: 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.