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Dirk Pitt® #27
Корсиканска сянка
Безстрашният авантюрист Дърк Пит трябва да разгадае една отдавнашна историческа мистерия в „Корсиканска сянка“ - най-новият роман от обичаната поредица бестселъри за Дърк Пит и Национална агенция за морско и подводно дело, създадени от „великия магистър на приключенията“ Клайв Къслър.
През май 1940 г., по времето, когато германската армия бомбардира Европа и парижани бягат от своя град, главният уредник на Музея на армията получава заповед да изнесе от страната тайнствен товар. Когато пристига на пристанище Хавър и научава, че корабът, на който възнамерява да се качи, е потопен предния ден, той качва товара на грохнал параход, който успява да отплава невредим от германския обстрел.
Директорът на НАМПД Дърк Пит участва във водолазна експедиция в Ламанша и открива съкровище от необработени диаманти в корабни останки. Когато диамантите са откраднати, Пит и екипът на НАМПД се изправят срещу опасен заговор, който скоро разработва много по-смъртоносни планове от обикновената кражба.
Под удар се оказват жизненоважни водни пречиствателни станции из цял свят, което изправя световното население пред голяма опасност.
От сенките на Айфеловата кула до дълбините на Ирландско море и чак до Карибските острови единствено Дърк Пит и неговите деца близнаци Дърк-младши и Съмър са способни да намерят съкровището, което ще опази душата на една нация... и ще спаси света от катастрофа.
През май 1940 г., по времето, когато германската армия бомбардира Европа и парижани бягат от своя град, главният уредник на Музея на армията получава заповед да изнесе от страната тайнствен товар. Когато пристига на пристанище Хавър и научава, че корабът, на който възнамерява да се качи, е потопен предния ден, той качва товара на грохнал параход, който успява да отплава невредим от германския обстрел.
Директорът на НАМПД Дърк Пит участва във водолазна експедиция в Ламанша и открива съкровище от необработени диаманти в корабни останки. Когато диамантите са откраднати, Пит и екипът на НАМПД се изправят срещу опасен заговор, който скоро разработва много по-смъртоносни планове от обикновената кражба.
Под удар се оказват жизненоважни водни пречиствателни станции из цял свят, което изправя световното население пред голяма опасност.
От сенките на Айфеловата кула до дълбините на Ирландско море и чак до Карибските острови единствено Дърк Пит и неговите деца близнаци Дърк-младши и Съмър са способни да намерят съкровището, което ще опази душата на една нация... и ще спаси света от катастрофа.
448 pages, Paperback
First published November 7, 2023
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About the author
Clive Cussler
648 books8,547 followersCussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.
Cussler was an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.
In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA, Cussler was also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He was honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration.
Cussler's books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. His past international bestsellers include Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic, Vixen 03, Night Probe, Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, Inca Gold, Shock Wave, Flood Tide, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind (this last with his son, Dirk Cussler); the nonfiction books The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed; the NUMA® Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, White Death and Lost City (written with Paul Kemprecos); and the Oregon Files novels Sacred Stone and Golden Buddha (written with Craig Dirgo) and Dark Watch (written with Jack Du Brul).
Clive Cussler died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 24, 2020.
Cussler was an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.
In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA, Cussler was also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He was honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration.
Cussler's books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. His past international bestsellers include Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic, Vixen 03, Night Probe, Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, Inca Gold, Shock Wave, Flood Tide, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind (this last with his son, Dirk Cussler); the nonfiction books The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed; the NUMA® Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, White Death and Lost City (written with Paul Kemprecos); and the Oregon Files novels Sacred Stone and Golden Buddha (written with Craig Dirgo) and Dark Watch (written with Jack Du Brul).
Clive Cussler died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 24, 2020.
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March 26, 2024
Cussler’s Dirk Pitt novels always delight. Protagonists like Giordino and the Pitts (including Summer) who all have a wonderful self-deprecating sense of humor, give life to the terrible threats they routinely face.
They face a stream of threats in The Corsican Shadow. Villains Villard and Nassar’s devious plan to contaminate water supplies on three continents is nicely woven into NUMA’s (National Underwater and Marine Agency) research schedule.
Managing not to get blow up, shot, or kidnapped, the team rushes around the world heading off the villains while hoping to track down long lost diamonds and the lost body of Napoleon. WOW.
Great fun and great action, which is what we have come to expect of the Pitts. -Tom L.
They face a stream of threats in The Corsican Shadow. Villains Villard and Nassar’s devious plan to contaminate water supplies on three continents is nicely woven into NUMA’s (National Underwater and Marine Agency) research schedule.
Managing not to get blow up, shot, or kidnapped, the team rushes around the world heading off the villains while hoping to track down long lost diamonds and the lost body of Napoleon. WOW.
Great fun and great action, which is what we have come to expect of the Pitts. -Tom L.
March 25, 2025
A pretty standard by the numbers Cussler adventure. It lacks the magic of earlier Dirk Pitt stories but it’s an entertaining and enjoyable way to pass the time.
November 22, 2023
Is it just me or has the Clive Cussler empire finally died? His other series – Issac Bell, Sam and Remi Fargo, the Juan guy, Kurt Austin, have been on life support but I expected better from his son. Clive hasn’t written a novel by himself in 20 years so I didn’t think it would make much difference but here we are with The Corsican Shadow and I just don’t care.
The son is writing to formula but the execution is sloppy. Don’t test me on this. If you put a Clive manuscript and a Dirk manuscript in front of me I probably wouldn’t be able to separate them out. Still, perception is everything, and I perceive Clive is dead.
There is plenty of maritime action and historical shipwrecks, but the characters are putting me to sleep. Dirk Pitt got married for no reason that serves the books and I never really liked the twins anyway. I’m pretty sure that’s on Clive’s son. Hijinks and capers that used to be fun are just silly now. Maybe if Dirk wrote the next one in anime.
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The son is writing to formula but the execution is sloppy. Don’t test me on this. If you put a Clive manuscript and a Dirk manuscript in front of me I probably wouldn’t be able to separate them out. Still, perception is everything, and I perceive Clive is dead.
There is plenty of maritime action and historical shipwrecks, but the characters are putting me to sleep. Dirk Pitt got married for no reason that serves the books and I never really liked the twins anyway. I’m pretty sure that’s on Clive’s son. Hijinks and capers that used to be fun are just silly now. Maybe if Dirk wrote the next one in anime.
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February 21, 2024
Dirk Pitt and the gang are on the case when some corporate terrorists decide the only way to save their company is to destroy fresh water sources. There's also treasure involved. And Napoleon's bones are found...again! Isn't this something like the fourth time they've been found in the Cussler-verse? Will we ever know the truth about poor Leon?
Not bad, but the villain was at best, underwhelming.
Not bad, but the villain was at best, underwhelming.
December 31, 2023
Dirk Cussler continues the legacy his father left for him. Pitt and Giordino on one hand and the twins on a separate, but related adventure contains all the expected derring do, dangers, escapes from said dangers.
An enjoyable enough story, but a couple of technical mishaps that Clive wouldn't have missed.
An enjoyable enough story, but a couple of technical mishaps that Clive wouldn't have missed.
March 8, 2024
I have a really low threshold for Clive Cussler books. They’re always bad.
Even by those standards, this is REALLY bad.
Even by those standards, this is REALLY bad.
June 24, 2024
Couldn't finish this one. J7st wasn't getting much out of it
February 25, 2024
This is a thriller that rightly leverages historical facts and effectively integrates this fascinating information with the Author's fictional narrative. A lot of serious, manly roughhousing and catty female behavior is described.
One swiped historical fact is the French Surcouf. It was the largest submarine in the world when it was built in 1926. It was constructed to be 350 feet long and with a beam of over 29 feet. The Surcouf as a gun-armed cruiser submarine included two 8-inch guns, anti-aircraft guns, and a floatplane. It was built with two 1700 horsepower electric motors with an approximate range of ten thousand nautical miles.
The Free French leadership sent the Surcouf to the Pacific theater, but rumors circulate that she is going to liberate Martinique from the Vichy regime. On February 18, 1942, the Surcouf vanishes without a trace in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with the US freighter Thompson Lykes, although this is not definitely established.
If one assumes the Thompson Lykes incident was indeed the event of Surcouf's sinking, then the wreck would lie 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep at 10°40′N 79°32′W.
The submarine's test depth was 80 m (260 ft). Operations complement: 8 officers and 110 men.
A second swiped historical fact is that Les Invalides (the tallest church building in Paris at a height of 107 meters) became Napoleon’s final resting place beginning about 20 years after he died on the British island of Saint Helena. In 1841, the government decided to exhume Napoleon’s body from UK territory (i.e., Saint Helena) and give him a proper burial in France—as a political effort to unite the French people and increase the government’s popularity.
Brought back to Invalides, the ebony sarcophagus was on display for twenty years before being placed in the porphyry sarcophagus, in which it has stood ever since. The body of Napoléon lies inside a coffin, itself nested in four other coffins made of different materials: tinplate, mahogany, lead, ebony. There is no document, account or testimony to suggest it has been opened since 15 October 1840.
The Author integrates these historical facts into a fictional narrative involving the Surcouf's transport of Napoleon Bonaparte's remains and his multiple coffins along with two well-made aluminum valises full of gem quality diamonds to Josephine Bonaparte's ancestral home in Martinique. This destination is use of the third historical fact.
Read this book for its entertainment value and for the bonus of abundant details about several interesting historical facts.
One swiped historical fact is the French Surcouf. It was the largest submarine in the world when it was built in 1926. It was constructed to be 350 feet long and with a beam of over 29 feet. The Surcouf as a gun-armed cruiser submarine included two 8-inch guns, anti-aircraft guns, and a floatplane. It was built with two 1700 horsepower electric motors with an approximate range of ten thousand nautical miles.
The Free French leadership sent the Surcouf to the Pacific theater, but rumors circulate that she is going to liberate Martinique from the Vichy regime. On February 18, 1942, the Surcouf vanishes without a trace in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with the US freighter Thompson Lykes, although this is not definitely established.
If one assumes the Thompson Lykes incident was indeed the event of Surcouf's sinking, then the wreck would lie 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep at 10°40′N 79°32′W.
The submarine's test depth was 80 m (260 ft). Operations complement: 8 officers and 110 men.
A second swiped historical fact is that Les Invalides (the tallest church building in Paris at a height of 107 meters) became Napoleon’s final resting place beginning about 20 years after he died on the British island of Saint Helena. In 1841, the government decided to exhume Napoleon’s body from UK territory (i.e., Saint Helena) and give him a proper burial in France—as a political effort to unite the French people and increase the government’s popularity.
Brought back to Invalides, the ebony sarcophagus was on display for twenty years before being placed in the porphyry sarcophagus, in which it has stood ever since. The body of Napoléon lies inside a coffin, itself nested in four other coffins made of different materials: tinplate, mahogany, lead, ebony. There is no document, account or testimony to suggest it has been opened since 15 October 1840.
The Author integrates these historical facts into a fictional narrative involving the Surcouf's transport of Napoleon Bonaparte's remains and his multiple coffins along with two well-made aluminum valises full of gem quality diamonds to Josephine Bonaparte's ancestral home in Martinique. This destination is use of the third historical fact.
Read this book for its entertainment value and for the bonus of abundant details about several interesting historical facts.
December 15, 2023
The Dirk Pitt/NUMA series and the legacy of Clive Cussler carries on...Since the beginnings, with the original stories, there has been a very successful formula to them all...Pitt and his NUMA associates forestall a criminal mastermind's plan for the World and discover or solve a major historical mystery along the way...Always great fun and page-turning thriller...With "Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow," by Dirk Cussler we have just that...The NUMA crew stops the efforts of a criminal enterprise to control some of the World's fresh water supplies and discover missing remains important to French national pride...It's all Good here!
September 12, 2024
3.5 stars- as has been the case since the “super kids” were forced into this series for no reason, the parts of the book that involve them are boring and the parts that involve Dirk and Al are awesome.
February 12, 2024
Pitt gets his car
The first of the book wasn’t like Clive Cussler but the short chapters were great it let you connect the story together and this kept you the edge of your seat
The first of the book wasn’t like Clive Cussler but the short chapters were great it let you connect the story together and this kept you the edge of your seat
March 25, 2024
I loved Clive Cussler books for decades and was scared for the series after his passing. But now with his son Dirk, taking up the helm, the series doesn't miss a beat. This adventure has all the usual cast, Dirk, Al, Summer and Dirk Jr, plus all the rest of the NUMA crew. I love how everyone's story is mixed in and Dirk Sr always rescues everyone. The story of the mystery crate and lost diamonds takes you all over the globe. Its just another great story of NUMA.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC
December 17, 2024
As usual the world is in peril. As usual, NUMA races to the rescue. This one has a dozen or so different ports of call and wraps uncut diamonds, water shortages, and high-tech sabotage all into another neat package. Never a dull moment in this page-turner, even if the coincidences are a bit over the top. Fun beach read if you are looking for an alternative to "meet-cute" romances.
April 26, 2024
Always good to catch up with Dirk, Al and the rest of the Numa crew. The twins are all growled up and firmly in the family business. This one follows the formula. An easy, entertaining read. Learned some history, learned some technology. And the good guys won.
January 12, 2024
Globetrotting in search of the most famous Corsican of all time, Napoleon himself and his treasure? Fun as the author's books always are.
April 13, 2024
Mechanical writing style, poorly drawn characters, and unbelievable plot. Won’t be reading anything else by Cussler any time soon!
September 14, 2024
Just don't.
September 17, 2024
I got this from a little free library near my parents house when I was home. There is not much literary finesse in this book but the story was exciting enough to keep me hooked.
October 6, 2024
5 stars for water treatment plants
December 8, 2023
It was a good read. I bit more realistic and believable.
March 18, 2024
divinely written
I wasn’t sure how this book would read since the true author is resting in sleep, I’m very happy as I’m sure Clive would be with the way this book turned out. I have read all of Clive’s books and I loved all of them he was a master story teller and I’m going to miss his writing.
I wasn’t sure how this book would read since the true author is resting in sleep, I’m very happy as I’m sure Clive would be with the way this book turned out. I have read all of Clive’s books and I loved all of them he was a master story teller and I’m going to miss his writing.
March 17, 2024
I found it to be a bit of a slow start. However it picked up by part 2 and I couldn’t put it down
March 16, 2024
One of the best
I enjoyed this book from start to finish. It is an excellent read. I'm looking forward to the next Dirk Pitt adventure.
I enjoyed this book from start to finish. It is an excellent read. I'm looking forward to the next Dirk Pitt adventure.
March 14, 2024
great Cussler plot and book
March 12, 2024
Another winner
Fast to the action. Keeps you engaged and you won't want to put it down. Definitely recommend. Can't wait for the next adventure.
Fast to the action. Keeps you engaged and you won't want to put it down. Definitely recommend. Can't wait for the next adventure.
March 10, 2024
It’s been such a long time since we have had a new Dirk Pitt novel (although I seem to have missed The Devil’s Sea). It was a joy to revisit old friends.
As with all the books in this series, this was an exciting and enjoyable tale.
As with all the books in this series, this was an exciting and enjoyable tale.
March 11, 2024
Great beach read. And it-could-happen scary.
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February 20, 2024An excellent read . A very interesting story line.
I particularly liked the ending.
I particularly liked the ending.
November 19, 2023
The Dirk Pitt Series, now written by Dirk Cussler, does not skip a beat. The Cliff hangers don’t stop and the reader’s enjoyment, at least mine, lasts through the novel.
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