Book description
Valhalla Rising is Clive Cussler's thrilling sixteenth Dirk
Pitt adventure.
Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy in the air, and below the waves,
finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most dangerous adventure yet.
When the luxury cruise lined Emerald Dolphin - powered by a
revolutionary new propulsion system - becomes a raging inferno and
sinks mysteriously, it is lucky that NUMA special projects director
Dirk Pitt is on hand to rescue the passengers and investigate the tragedy.
Sifting through the undersea wreckage for signs of foul play, Pitt
is unaware of powerful, dark forces player their hand against him.
Forced to fight for his life - and those of friends and colleagues -
against evermore ruthless enemies from a shadowy organisation, Pitt
finds himself caught between the secrets of the past and the intrigues
of the future. A future that will hold the world to ransom...
Filled with breathtaking suspense and dazzling action, Valhalla
Rising sees Clive Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.
Valhalla Rising is the sixteenth of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk
Pitt novels - the series that also includes Atlantis Found and, his
first novel, Mayday - in which our hero finds himself caught up in a
web of shipwrecks and dark secrets.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy
Bestselling author Clive Cussler has thrilled readers for four
decades with his classic adventure novels filled with intrigue and
plot twists. As well as the Dirk Pitt series there are also the NUMA
and OregonFiles, the Isaac Bell adventures and the Fargo
series. Other Dirk Pitt titles available in Penguin paperback include
Atlantis Found, Trojan Odyssey, Black Wind,
Treasure of Khan, Arctic Drift, Crescent Dawn
and The Kingdom.
Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of thirty-eight previous
books, including nineteen Dirk Pitt novels, eight NUMA Files adventures,
six
Oregon
Files books, three works of non-fiction, and his historical adventures,
The Chase
and
The Wrecker
. He lives in Arizona.
