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Original Title:	Trojan Odyssey
ISBN:	0425199320 (ISBN13: 9780425199329)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dirk Pitt #17
Characters:	Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino
Setting:	Caribbean Central America

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Title	:	Trojan Odyssey (Dirk Pitt #17)
Author	:	Clive Cussler
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 463 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2004 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (first published November 24th 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Adventure. Thriller

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Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet.

In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime.

There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. The twins are working in a NUMA(r) underwater enclosure, trying to determine its origin, when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something strange and beautiful and ancient; and the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight not only for them but also for a luxurious floating resort hotel square in its path.

The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable, and, desperately, Pitt, Al Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA(r) crew rush to the rescue, but what they find in the storm's wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the world, and the brown tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon, its work will be complete-and the world will be a very different place.

Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is already a very different place...

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I discovered Clive Cussler about 20 years ago (!) (that's the sound of me feeling old), when I randomly picked up a paperback copy of Shock Wave at the supermarket I worked at. I was instantly hooked. That exciting combo of James Bond/Indiana Jones style of adventure always got my blood pumping. I read his newer stuff for a while (while going back and checking out the classics between new releases) and gradually fell off after Valhalla Rising, which I don't remember a lot of, but I remember it

Ever read Homer's Odyssey and Iliad in high school? You get to read the highlights here again and then find out where it really took place. This is another of Cussler's tall tales that was thoroughly entertaining. He always provides enough thrills and action to keep you from fully questioning the tall tale.

This book is a well written adventure. It was full of excitement and made me want to keep reading. It is a mix of the modern world, and tales of Odysseus' travels. It is a great novel and I would recommend it to anyone that likes action.

Dirk Pitt and the gang remain one of my favorite guilty pleasures, even though I've fallen a few books behind in the series. The plots are far-fetched, the plot holes are sometimes gaping, and the dialogue is often stilted. (Someone in this day and age referring to something as "heavenly"? Or a 24-year-old woman saying "I shall"?) But there is always some interesting science and speculative fiction behind the main plot, and this one is no exception. This time around, the historical question



This is the first Cussler I have read. Initially I was a bit skeptical although the reviews were good. The book cover also did not impress me (believe it or not), so it sat on my shelf for a couple of years when I decided to finally dust it and start reading. It was not a bad book at all. The background of the book is why and how the Trojan war was fought by Greeks (or Celts if the story in the book is to be believed) and its modern day adaptation by a conglomerate to control the world's

Typical Cussler story: easy read, implausible scenarios, entertaining, the hero always wins.