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| Valhalla Rising (A Dirk Pitt Novel) |  | Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Penguin
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Rating:  37 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: Re-issue
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 0140287973
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140287974
Publication Date: November 5, 2009
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Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy above and below the waves finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most dangerous adventure yet. When the luxury cruise liner Emerald Dolphin becomes a raging inferno and sinks mysteriously, it is lucky that NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt is on hand to rescue the passengers and investigate the tragedy.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler's aging but still potent superhero, returns in Valhalla Rising, the 16th adventure in this popular series about the director of special projects for the National Underwater Maritime Administration (NUMA). Pitt's NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world's newest and biggest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among those who perish is a famous scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr Egan, he rescues his beautiful daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue vessel. Pitt and his trusty pal Al Giordino track the sinking to the boardroom door of a multinational conglomerate called Cerberus, whose evil CEO has designs on the world's oil supply. He'll do anything to keep Egan's advanced engines and secret formula for frictionless oil off the market--even sabotage another vessel, this time a luxury passenger submarine. By the time our heroes have foiled the mastermind's nefarious plots, they've also uncovered the existence of a working submarine nearly a century before one actually existed--irrefutable proof of a Viking landing on the Hudson River--and the remains of the British sailor who inspired Jules Verne's Captain Nemo. A solid page-turner that even features a cameo appearance by the author himself, Valhalla Rising snaps, crackles, and pops with Cussler's usual brio. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com
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 Not Cussler's best. A bit silly in a lot of places. June 28, 2010
D. J. Brown (UK)
This is my fifth Cussler book now (in no particular order). It's the standard fayre of good guys against big secretive nasty guys and OK as a holiday read. However, unlike other writers like Matthew Reilly who obviously have a big tongue in their cheek, Cussler takes this story a bit too seriously (OK, it's written in partnership - so maybe that's what has spoiled it). He even puts himself in the story as a hero, ooerr Freud!
The Viking and Nautilus/Captain Nemo bits are interesting, but just pointless icing as they have no real link to the main story, which on reflection probably wouldn't have been too great by itself.
This book also distances you from the heroes, as they just make you push fingers down your throat, rather than have any empathy with them. I was almost rooting for the bad guys in this book.
 best yet June 14, 2010
R. P. Kerr (Bedford UK)
This is the best Clive Cussler novel I've read so far with my introduction to Dirk Pitt. It's fast, exciting, imaginative and you never know what's coming next to excite you! I shall certainly buy more with this character.
Fantastic! June 30, 2009
CAB1 (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first Clive Cussler book I read,and it got me hooked.I've now read about 19 or 20 of his books and this is deffinatley one of his very best.I must have read it 4 times,and keep going back to it.I can never quite remember how the oil keeps reapearing in the briefcase- confused? read it and be enthralled by this breathtaking imaginative technothriller.I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
 Stab Wound May 26, 2009
Critch (Madrid, Spain)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt® (not pronounced like the bread product, to the best of my knowledge) is only one of several personality simulacra which festoon this book, which in turn can only truly be described as a mass dumping of toxic waste at sea. Cussler, you see, really likes treasure and ship wrecks and all who sail on them - so if you buy yourself a copy of Valhalla Rising, you should prepare yourself to encounter multiple cut-and-paste versions of the following "characters":
Thirty or forty ship's captains, all with with grey beards, clear blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, peg-legs and parrots (well, three out of five's not bad).
A host of the most ridiculously named characters, about one of which our hero has the gall to say "Sounds phoney" - this coming from someone whose name reads like it was lifted from a medieval Scottish autopsy report.
Twelve or so females, all representative of the "hot" sub-group, none representative of the "suffragette" sub-group, all of whom - regardless of whether they are divers, oceanographic specialists, administrators, pilots, computer-generated AI interfaces (yes, really) or MEMBERS OF CONGRESS - like nothing more than to cook and clean up after their men.
And, of course, there is Clive Cussler - who manages to appear not just as himself, saving the day in a striking example of Deus ex Litericha; and not just in the form of his obvious hero fantasy persona, Dirk Pitt®, he that is damply lusted after by all women but who somehow never quite finds the time to take advantage of this, yet who DOES have plenty of inclination to cram himself into close quarters with all sorts of strapping, backslapping, super-masculine sailors (and there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT - just admit it, man); no, Cussler appears not JUST in these forms, but also in the form of his fantasy persona's juvenile CLONE, Dirk Pitt Jn®, a carbon copy of this ageing neutered sex-pot who can only be the product of a skin-cell fertilisation program or immaculate conception - but through whom, as only the second link in a divine chain, we can be assured of an infinite procession of adventures still to come...
IT'S TERRIBLE. Hilariously bad at times - at one point I snorted in derision so hard I had to run for a tissue - but still TERRIBLE. Avoid it like a plague rat - unless you don't mind laughing until you scream.
ALTERNATIVELY - if you're a member of the no-brains-required, "don't take it so seriously, man", DAN BROWN readership, then feel free to quote-mine this for my ringing endorsement:
"Dirk Pitt® ... is ... Clive Cussler's ... immaculate conception" - FOUR WHITE STARS
This rocks! May 18, 2009
Mr. K. T. Mccartney (Northern Ireland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this as I heard so much about it, but had never read it before, so when I get the chance: Bam!
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