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A review by professorfate
Night Probe! by Clive Cussler
4.0
You know that one favorite restaurant of yours? Sure you do: the one that you go into so often that they know you on sight, and where you order pretty much the same thing every time so that you almost don’t have to order—they just bring it to you. And it is always so good! You know the place?
For me, Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series is like that restaurant (except that Clive Cussler doesn’t know me—at least, I don’t think he does). I have read all but the last two Pitt books—and am rereading them now—so while the details aren’t remembered, I at least know what I’m going to get: a fast read, a great adventure with beautiful women and fast cars, extremely unlikely escapes, coincidences that strain credibility, but I get to the end exhilarated and having enjoyed myself.
This time, the story starts in 1914, before World War I begins. An English envoy is carrying an important paper back to Britain when the ship he’s on collides with a coal ship and sinks in the St. Lawrence River. Meanwhile, an American envoy with another important piece of paper is on the Manhattan Limited, a train headed back down the Hudson towards Washington during a storm when a bridge spanning the river collapses and the train disappears.
In future times (for the book anyway—1989), the United States is having a financial crisis and the President is considering defaulting on all of the nation’s debts. Meanwhile, Quebec is making noises like it wants to separate from the rest of Canada. The pieces of paper that the men 75 years previously come to life, and Pitt now finds himself in charge to salvage operations to find those papers, which could have a monumental effect of history.
That’s all I’ll say. Read the book and enjoy the discoveries in one of Pitt’s best books.
For me, Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series is like that restaurant (except that Clive Cussler doesn’t know me—at least, I don’t think he does). I have read all but the last two Pitt books—and am rereading them now—so while the details aren’t remembered, I at least know what I’m going to get: a fast read, a great adventure with beautiful women and fast cars, extremely unlikely escapes, coincidences that strain credibility, but I get to the end exhilarated and having enjoyed myself.
This time, the story starts in 1914, before World War I begins. An English envoy is carrying an important paper back to Britain when the ship he’s on collides with a coal ship and sinks in the St. Lawrence River. Meanwhile, an American envoy with another important piece of paper is on the Manhattan Limited, a train headed back down the Hudson towards Washington during a storm when a bridge spanning the river collapses and the train disappears.
In future times (for the book anyway—1989), the United States is having a financial crisis and the President is considering defaulting on all of the nation’s debts. Meanwhile, Quebec is making noises like it wants to separate from the rest of Canada. The pieces of paper that the men 75 years previously come to life, and Pitt now finds himself in charge to salvage operations to find those papers, which could have a monumental effect of history.
That’s all I’ll say. Read the book and enjoy the discoveries in one of Pitt’s best books.