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Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character)FictionAdventure storiesLarge type booksNew York Times reviewed
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Open LibraryAbout this book
Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of his career--a billionaire Australian diamond king with whom he must wage conflict above and below the sea for the survival of vast numbers of sea creatures and more than a million human beings.
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Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character)FictionAdventure storiesLarge type booksNew York Times reviewedPitt, dirk (fictitious character), fiction
About the author
Clive Cussler
1931-07-15 – 2020-02-24
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) th…
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