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

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For starters, he uses a prelude based in the past for the first time. The continuing characters are now fully
developed. The Cussler "what if" scenario is utilized with great results. And the writing is fast-paced and
action-packed.
Clive even uses a brilliant surprise ending. The book made him a millionaire, and rightly so.
It has stood the test of time and reads as well today as back in 1976 when it was first published by the
Viking Press in hardcover and later by Bantam in paperback. The book was serialized in the Los
Angeles Times as a cartoon strip, andRaise the Titanic! was the only Pitt novel to be made into a movie.
The prelude, Clive's first set in the past, describes a man on the edge of madness who is awakened
aboard a ship by an undefined noise.
Through clues, the astute reader realizes the man is aboard the Titanic and the ship is sinking. At
gunpoint, the man forces one of the ship's junior officers, named Bigalow, to show him below decks.
There, the man locks himself in a vault to die with the ship. Bigalow survives.
As the novel progresses, we learn that a top-secret defense project called the Sicilian Project requires
a mineral named byzanium, thought to have been mined out of existence. The only traces that might still
exist are located on a Russian island. A NUMA oceanographic expedition is used to provide the cover
for a mineralogist to search the island.
Pitt makes his appearance early and with excellent dramatic effect. As is the case in later works, he
appears larger than life as he saves the mineralogist and carries him to safety.
It is learned that the island mine had contained byzanium but was fully mined, and a search is on to find
out what happened to the mineral.
Then we learn that the byzanium was placed aboard the Titanic, and an intricate and expensive plan is
hatched to raise the ship.
The novel features a subplot about a deteriorating marriage along with a cast of Russian secret agents
intent first on learning what the Sicilian Project is about and later attempting to stop the project by