Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14)

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Clive Cussler

Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River that can only enhance his status as the grand master of adventure fiction The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt s adversary in Flood Tide is human lives much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States Tracking the smuggler s activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere Why has he chosen this unlikely location The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949, including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War 1 As Pitt prepares for a final showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered With a dozen consecutive New York Times bestsellers and over 70 million copies of his books in print, Clive Cussler is one of America s most popular novelists His latest book is enthralling, intricately plotted, and supremely suspenseful. New Download Kindle ePUB Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14) Author Clive Cussler – kino-fada.fr I keep reading Clive Cussler s Dirk Pitt stories, even though they drive me up the wall This one had ALL my Cussler pet peeves 1 Dirk Pitt as irresistible, life altering stud muffin Example She was put through to his secretary, who informed her that Pitt was out on vacation and had not returned to work yet Julia hung up the phone and settled her head into the pillows In some odd manner she felt transformed Here I am acting like a brazen hussy, she thought, pursuing a man I hardly know Wh I keep reading Clive Cussler s Dirk Pitt stories, even though they drive me up the wall This one had ALL my Cussler pet peeves 1 Dirk Pitt as irresistible, life altering stud muffin Example She was put through to his...This is the second Dirk Pitt adventure I have read from Clive Cussler The first, Raise The Titanic , didn t impress me, but it intrigued me enough to pick up another offering from the author.Well, after this, I doubt I ll pick up a third Cussler s writing is downright bad, the plot of the story was so obvious I had it figured out hundreds of pages ahead of time, and the combination of invincibility, luck, wit, and charm of Dirk Pitt was laughable All in all it was just too much for me The se This is the second Dirk Pitt adventure I have read from Clive Cussler The f...Dirk Pitt takes a vacation in rustic Washington state His neighbor is a seemingly paranoid Chinese tycoon, who bought up the whole rest of the lake where Pitt is staying Pitt starts poking around, and finds that the bottom of the lake is...Another fun and thrilling Dirk Pitt adventure Flood Tide has Pitt coming up against a Chinese tyrant who is selling illegal immigrants into slavery, and who is also in search of a long lost shipwreck And we are introduced to Juan Cabrillo, who is the protagonist of the Oregon Files series, which is also written by Cussler, Cabrillo makes a cameo appearance, which I thought was pretty cool.I realize that since I ve been reading the Dirk Pitt series in order, I realize he s getting up there in a Another fun and thrilling Dirk Pitt adventure Flood Tide has Pitt coming up against a Chinese tyrant who is selling illegal immigrants into slavery, and who is also in search of a long lost shipwreck And we are introduced to Juan Cabrillo, who is the protagonist of the Oregon Files series, which is also written by Cussler, Cabrillo makes a cameo appeara...This book has Chinese stereotypes that make Fu Manchu look like a Nobel laureate Read if you need something brain dead or if you enjoy cabin in the woods stories and don t mind a protagonist that seems physically young but who h...Okay, I got bored and didn t read the last 100 pages I think I ve outgrown my liking for Dirk Pitt, sadly.I ve enjoyed several of Cussler s books, but this one left a bad taste in my mouth with his semi racist depiction of the Chinese characters in the book.I think I ve found my KryptoniteIf you can get past the inelegant prose the pool meandered in a circle Is that even possible , the way that he mistakes eye colour for characterisation, the long technical conversations between two people who already know every detail and don t need to discuss them, the assumption that people who have gone through a long and deeply unpleasant journey to escape the tyrannical rule of the Chinese government will want to establish it in the country they ve just escaped to, the passages describ If you can get past the inelegant prose the pool meandered in a circle Is that even possible , the way that he mistakes eye colour for characterisation, the long technical conversations between two people who already know every detail and don t need to discuss them, the assumption that people who have gone through a long and deeply unpleasant journey to escape the tyrannical rule of the Chinese government will want to establish it in t...A novel with page turning sequences and lots of dull areas I did enjoy Cussler s misuse of words and original descriptions Apart from disliking the hero, I found the Yellow Peril theme, presented asthan a premise for an action adventure, disturbing.Cultural sensitivity Through the doors of other rooms he could hear the strange, twangy sounds that Orientals call music Yellow Peril Time is on our side Not only will we erode America from the outside, but with the help of your own co A novel with page turning sequences and lots of dull areas I did enjoy Cussler s misuse of words and original descriptions Apart from disliking the hero, I found the Yellow Peril theme, presented asthan a premise for an action adventure, disturbing.Cultural sensitivity Through the doors ...

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22 March 2018

Clive Cussler