Synopsis: In Raise the Titanic, a rare mineral critical to a top-secret defense project was lost in 1912, sealed inside the hull of the most famous shipwreck in history. To get it back, Dirk Pitt has to do what no one has ever managed: raise the Titanic itself.
A Cold War defense project has hit an impossible wall. The one material capable of completing it, a rare mineral called byzanium, went down with the Titanic in 1912 and has been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic ever since. Recovering it means doing something no engineer has ever pulled off: bringing the wreck itself back to the surface, intact enough to reach what’s sealed inside.
Cussler opens with a prologue set decades before the main story, a structural choice he hadn’t used before in the Dirk Pitt series, tracing how the byzanium ended up aboard the ship in the first place before jumping forward to the present-day recovery effort. From there it’s Pitt’s team against the ocean itself, treating the raising of the Titanic less as a single stunt and more as a sustained engineering siege, with Soviet agents working just as hard to make sure the operation fails.
The novel that put Cussler on the bestseller map, this remains one of the most audacious premises in the Dirk Pitt series, ambitious enough that Hollywood’s 1980 film adaptation couldn’t come close to matching it, a famously expensive flop that Cussler himself was openly unhappy with. The book, unlike the movie, holds up as one of the series’ most purely entertaining entries.
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- Title: Raise the Titanic!
- Author: Clive Cussler
- Series: Dirk Pitt Adventures, Book 4
- Publisher: Viking Press
- Publication date: October 26, 1976 (First Edition)
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 9780670589333 · ISBN-10: 0670589330
- Pages: 314 pages
- Genre: Adventure / Techno-thriller
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out of Stock
- Price: KES550
Notable: Adapted into a critically panned 1980 film, famously disliked by Cussler himself, that became one of the era’s biggest box-office bombs.
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