Valhalla Rising (Clive Cussler in general)

Member Name: macrae

Product:	Clive Cussler in general
Date:	15/02/03 (60 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Read

Disadvantages: none

Another outing for Dirk Pitt and his sidekick Al Giordino.

As in all of Cussler books you start with a history lesson about a subject that will eventually be part of the main story. This time it is about the Vikings landing in North America and set a settlement up before exploring the area and the he jumps ahead in time to 1894 and has a chapter about a mystery submarine that attacks a United States warship.

We then jump forward to the present and Valhalla Rising starts with the sinking of the unsinkable cruise ship The Emerald Dolphin and by sheer chance Dirk Pitt is in the location to be on hand to help save the majority of the passengers and one of the main female characters of the book.

This adventure keeps the same lines of Cussler adventures or should I say Pitt adventures, who needs the FBI or CIA when you have Dirk Pitt of the NUMA, he is the American equivalent of James Bond.

The plot of the story is about the woman that was saved, father, who dies on the ship, he has designed a type of engine that is powered by seawater which is very efficient and obviously very cheap for a ship in the sea, but he has a secret type of oil that keeps this type of engine (Magneto hydrodynamic) lubricated at high temperatures.

As the plot weaves its way to the finale the red baron, Jules Verne proof that Vikings discover the Americas and the cameo appearance of Clive Cussler himself.

The ending is a little different but ingenious to lengthen the staying power of Dirk Pitt or Clive Cussler in this role on our book shelves but you need to read it to find out what.

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