Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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If anything,The Mediterranean Caper should be read by Cussler fans if only to understand better the
journey the Pitt books have made over the years.
Iceberg
Originally published 1975 and in 1977 by Bantam Books, Inc.Iceberg became Clive's first hardcover
published. First editions of the hardcover are quite rare, and collectors of Cussler memorabilia find the
supply of books limited and the price high. The book enjoyed modest sales success, selling thirty-two
hundred of the five thousand printed in hardcover, although reprints have kept it in print to this day.
Icebergbegins with a neat hook: the first paragraph in the prologue is actually what the copilot of a
plane is reading, a book within a book.
From there, we progress to a Coast Guard patrol plane spotting an iceberg with a ship embedded
inside. They mark the iceberg with dye, then fly away toward their base. AsIceberg by Dodd Mead &
Company in they leave, a pair of men climb from inside the iceberg and call someone on a portable radio.
Chapter One finds Pitt piloting a helicopter toward a Coast Guard ship and landing on her deck. As is
Clive's custom, he mentions his previous book by having the commander of the ship, when introduced to
Pitt, say, "By any chance the same Pitt who broke up that underwater smuggling business in Greece last
year?"
The plot features a missing billionaire mining engineer and genius who was involved in negotiations with
the United States government. The engineer has built a device that can detect underwater mineral
deposits.
The theme of underwater mining is also common in future Pitt novels.
Pitt pilots a helicopter and an old plane, a Ford Trimotor, which he later buys and places in his aircraft
hangar/home. In addition, Pitt's diving skills are on display as he dives on a mysterious jet that had
attacked the helicopter he was flying.