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    <![CDATA[Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction.<br/><br/> Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America's most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and &quot;vibrant, rollicking narrative&quot; (<em>Chicago Tribune</em>). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.<br/><br/>September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.<br/><br/>March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.<br/><br/>April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.<br/><br/>Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.<br/><br/>The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .<br/><br/>Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler's greatest adventure novel yet.<br/><br/>&quot;I've always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!&quot;--Clive Cussler]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can I give this no stars at all?<br/><br/>Product placement (in a book!).  Laughable metaphors and language; you can feel the hot breath of Cussler's thesaurus.  And a plot so far beyond credibility that it's boring.  <br/><br/>The pages of my copy stank of acid and cheap pulp, just like the mis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5326333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Dirk Pitt, indestructible hero of 14 previous Clive Cussler novels and special-projects director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (which is something like the CIA of the ocean depths), makes James Bond look like a tuxedoed, martini-swilling poseur. Pitt has raised the <em>Titanic</em>, escaped massive volcanic eruptions, ducked nuclear explosions, foiled criminal plans for world domination, saved everyone on earth from germ warfare, and mastered the ins and outs of various electronic gizmos and futuristic vehicles while evading every imaginable form of almost certain death. (Of course, he's also wildly successful with brilliant, beautiful women, but in an admirably circumspect, sensitive-guy way.) It stands to reason Pitt's the right man to handle a crisis of millennial proportions.<p>  When mysterious black obsidian skulls and other artifacts of an exceedingly ancient culture begin to turn up in odd places, Pitt jumps in with both feet. It soon becomes dangerously apparent that a powerful, amoral group of fanatics calling itself the Fourth Empire wants the strange discoveries to remain underground. Pitt teams up with a beautiful red-haired expert in ancient languages to decipher the meaning of the artifacts. They were made 10 millennia ago in a then-temperate Antarctica by a seafaring civilization advanced enough to predict its own destruction by a comet impact. Now the Fourth Empire (whose literal and figurative progenitor comes as no surprise) is predicting a similar disaster in only a matter of months, and preparing to take control of the earth. <p>  Cussler's known for hands-on research--his hobbies are the backbone of Pitt's adventures: flying, climbing, diving, racing. The scientific and historical riffs that fill in the background of <em>Atlantis Found</em> are the weakest parts of the book--they're Pitt-less, and they give every discovery in the book away early. But what the heck--Cussler's not the king of suspense, he's the emperor of nonstop action. <em>Atlantis Found</em> bounces along on a good-humored techno-joyride, and for Cussler's legion of fans, that will be more than enough. <em>--Barrie Trinkle</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the same comment for all the Dirk Pitt books:<br/>Great set of books, I had to stagger these books into my reading rotation since they are so similar. <br/>Dirk Series Book in less then 50 words.<br/>(introduction to bad guy, introduction to hot chick, introduction to Dirk, Dirk gets in impo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76967415">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a huge Dirk Pitt fan ever since I saw the Sahara movie.<br/>If there is another Dirk Pitt movie in the works it should be this one.<br/>I have always been attracted to stories about Atlantis and Clive Cussler does not disappoint with the twists, turns and adventure in this book.<br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48345814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Wolf&quot; family descended from Adolph Hitler and how they tried to Start the 4th Reich.<br/>Dirk Pitt and Company became involved in Antartica did they find Atlantis?<br/>One EXCITING book!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was bored and it was sitting on a shelf at home.  The story itself was kind of crazy.  Atlantis, Nazis, battle on Antarctica, the end of the world.  That's pretty out there.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[some GREAT action sequences, but it was way too much testosterone. It's rare I let books fall aside without finishing them, but this was one of those rare victims]]></body>
    
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