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    Arctic Drift
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Arctic Drift

    Written by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    Oceanographer Dirk Pitt traces a lost ship's mysterious cargo to a scientific discovery that could reverse the dangers of climate change in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series.

    When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices surge to an all-time high. To prevent global catastrophe, Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, must piece together what little records remain of the initial experiment. They may not know how it was done, but they know what their scientists were trying to accomplish: a solution for global warming.  

    Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission. And if Pitt, his family, and his buddy Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them…and the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 25, 2008
    ISBN9781101154212
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    Arctic Drift
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    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

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    Reviews for Arctic Drift

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    • 5/5
      Great book
    • 5/5
      Dirk Pitt always finds the way to stop the evil doers. I cannot always figure out what he will do, but I know he will do it. Always a good read.
    • 3/5
      Story about 2 ships that 180 years ago tried to sail through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic but became stuck in the ice. One of the ships had on it rhuthenium, a special metal that years later would prove to help with photosenthensis and eliminate carbon dioxide created by global warming. However, a devious millionaire in Canada does everything possible, including killing many people and bribing every Canadian official necessary to make sure that he has the rights to all of the rhutenium in the world. Action packed
    • 5/5
      Very cool.
    • 2/5
      As far as I can tell, this book is really not supposed to be taken too seriously. It's a thriller with lots of explosions and death, but the heroes remain upbeat and the author even writes himself into the story (I've never read Clive Cussler before). I had a hard time empathizing with the characters; their attitudes did not match the intensity of the situations they were in. Also very clunky expository dialogue. But I might recommend it to someone as a light read.
    • 4/5
      In 1849, Captain James Fitzpatrick, commander of the British exploration ship Erebus, abandons his ice locked ship and many of his men, driven crazy by some unseen force. In the teeth of a blizzard he leads his remaining crew across broken ice to their sister ship, HMS Terror. Thus begins the tale.Jumping to 2008 and Steve Miller is captaining his trawler through the Northwest Passage when a white fog envelopes his boat, killing him and his crewman. Just by chance, Dirt and Summer Pitt are taking water samples and come across the Steve Miller's boat and soon NUMA and their father, Dirk Pitt, are embroiled in a conspiracy that could bring nations, such as the United States, to its knees.True to Cussler norm this novel is an adventurous read. It moved along at a good pace, never dwadling, and the story unfolded in a breath taking fashion. Of course there were numerous seat-of-the-pants scenes, but thankfully, they were reasonably realistic, not like the unbelievably incredible scenes I've been bombarded with in other Cussler novels. BTW, I'm not reading his series in order.Cussler kept his characters in character, which was nice, and presented the reader with a certifiable arch-villain, of the crazy-greedy type, and his psychopath muscle who makes crazy man's desires happen.There were only a handful of grammatical errors, yet despite this I enjoyed this read more than other Cussler novels that were too unbelievable and seemed canned. I have my favorites ( I especially like the Isaac Bell novels) and this isn't one of them, but it was well worth my time.
    • 4/5
      As the title suggests, this one takes place primarily in the Arctic Ocean. A billionaire megalomaniac has brought the US and Canada to the brink of war merely to make a buck. He has a reputation as a Green man but that is only his public persona. The man is willing to do or say anything that would further his quest for more money and power. Dirk, Al and family all run into the machinations of Goyette. This helps them Pitt put the picture together faster, maybe fast enough to stop the madman.This is another Pitt adventure and as such is about the same as the others. Different story pushing things along and I enjoy listening to the books while driving. This one is pretty strong about anti-carbon output.
    • 4/5
      Felt the chill, the risk, the exciting discovery, the tactical efforts to move across frozen land. Another thrilling quick read for me when I needed some excitement for a few days. Write on Mr. Cussler and son!!
    • 4/5
      Amazon Description.A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming; a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Colombia; a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war.NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission; captain and crew perished to a man and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them.Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force, further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.Review.I had forgotten just how quickly Cussler draws you into a story and then keeps hold of you until the last page. There is nearly always a historical link at the start of these books and in this case it is the ill-fated Franklin expedition to find The North West Passage. I have no idea when a documentary I saw recently was made, but it showed one of the two of Franklin’s ships to have been found on the seabed not too far from King William Island off the coast of Canada. Pitt and Giordino find the wreck of the Terror, one of those two ships, as part of the story, although they also find the other one later one, and giving you that information is not a spoiler!Almost the whole story takes place in the freezing sea off the coast of Canada, not a glamorous location by any means, but one that still brings out the great excitement that Cussler manages to generate in all his stories. He appears briefly himself, as he does in other of his novels, but as usual goes unrecognised despite giving his name as he does in other tales! It is fast paced with much action and some great descriptions of the conditions in that part of the world. Pitt is again thrown up against a very dangerous foe in Clay Zak, who is backed by an extremely rich, greedy and conniving backer whose only concern is himself and no-one else – he meets a very timely end as Pitt, against all the odds, manages to overcome the problems and, again, helps the world, in this case with regard to energy resources. A great read.
    • 2/5
      Clive Cussler has been writing novels since 1973. His Dirk Pitt novels are very successful and he has made the bestseller lists many times. This is the first Cussler book I have read.I enjoy adventure stories and I am as keen as anyone to suspend belief to allow some technological or other contrived MacGuffin to warp the narrative as we go. I was disappointed with this book. After so many novels in the series I expected a relatively mature milieu, a rounded set of characters and strong, intricate plotting.To me this book reads like a young adult novel aimed at jocks-who-don’t-read. The plot takes too long to get going and there are endless senseless killings to establish the bad guys. The central conceit of near-war between the USA and Canada never feels believeable.Many people read and enjoy Clive Cussler and I can sort of see what they get out of it without actualy getting it myself. Perhaps I am just a little bit too grown up for this particular techno-thriller fantasy(?)
    • 2/5
      I am a Cussler fan and have read many of his books. I have enjoyed them all, except this one. I have come to the conclusion that someone else is writing these books with his name on them. This one has his son Dirk as co author. A militant Greenpeace fanatic could have helped him. This book is boring, lacking in anything close to reality. (except for the ice) I have read my last co-authored book by this author. I have noticed this same problem with some of the other authors who have tagged onto the Cussler name, but none have been so disappointing as this one. I look forward too, and pay a high price for a Clive Cussler novel, so it is a bitter pill to swallow.
    • 2/5
      Entertaining, but disappointingly a bit sloppy. The good - the story line at its core is imaginative and it is a fun read. The bad - superfluous and poorly developed characters, Dirk Pitt's twin children. Daughter falls madly in love in moments. Technical error or unexplained - diver descends 100+ feet and inspects the ocean floor and then in an emergency ascends without decompressing or suffering the "bends".
    • 3/5
      Another light, fast read from Cussler. I was somewhat surprised to see that this was the 20th Dirk Pitt novel until reflecting on the fact that these books are largely cookie-cutter productions. That's not too detract from the fact that they are fun reads, but really, pick up any of the books in the series and you'll get the flavor of them all. (Pick up more than one, and you may become tired of the same idiosyncrasies, like the author's cameo, which get somewhat old after multiple iterations.)
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed Arctic Drift more than I've enjoyed the last few Dirk Pitt novels. I suspect that can be attributed to the fact that this book was a more straight-forward story with less of the eye-rolling moments that have become a bit too common in some of the Dirk Pitt books. I also liked that Pitt is starting to recognize that he's getting older (and act, at times, accordingly). Finally, the use of Dirk and Summer at the beginning of the story and then giving way to Pitt and Giordano (and others) later, worked much better than forcing all of the characters to have roles throughout the story.
    • 4/5
      Dirk and family act to stop a mad industrialist who is willing to stop at nothing to continue making money while solving the mystory of the lost arctic expedition. Very good reading.
    • 4/5
      Untypically, this Clive Cussler novel started slowly. It took me a while to really get into it. In the end, Cussler's traditional historical start with a modern end thriller, does indeed end well. Normally, Cussler does a good (sometimes too good) job of tying this up at the end but I felt like Dirk Jr. and Summer's roles were left hanging. All in all, good read.