Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt Adventures)

Skipping continents in this story betrayal and subterfuge- but all the time moving the strands inexorably together, the story takes shape and cannons to the dramatic climax It’s a magnificent page turner You will love it

A bit slow but it got going to the end

Yet another cussler book read in just over a week. Once I start I cannot stop reading them. Again I loved the story and Dirk Pitts actions. I again fully recommend this series.

New clive cussler books just what I expected

An entertaining read but too far fetched to be taken seriously. Not one to remember. I'll still read Clive Cussler but not as a number 1 choice.

As usual a good adventure, well told.

This is almost two stories in one. Of course all the strands come together in the finale, but at times it is like reading two separate stories. Both strands are enjoyable enough to keep you turning the pages.

This was my first Clive Cussler novel - I bought the paperback at Birmingham New Street station 1979. Story set in 1988 around the South African struggle for majority rule, with a hangover from germ warfare in the early 1950s. Standard Clive Cussler plot - well-built, interesting characters, moments of what today's film censors seem to label as "mild threat", and as usual the novel draws from Clive Cussler's interest in water. This story is so much more coherent than those which dribbled out after Cussler seems to have outsourced the writing to Paul Kempikos (or whatever his name was). A similar comment applies to "Raise the Titanic"", where the story about raising the Titanic intact was ruined in 1985 when Bob Ballard found the wreckage in two huge chunks on the Atlantic floor. "Vixen 03" is a classic Clive Cussler novel and is worth the cost of a download. Mike

Clive Cussler schreibt zwar tatsächlich quasi immer die selben Geschichten seiner Helden in anderen Umgebungen und Zusammenstellungen; jedoch vermag er es in einer Art und Weise, auf die ich total abfahre! Entertainment-Thriller würde ich es nennen und Ich bin regelmäßig ab Seite 1 in der Storys gefesselt und fiebere mit Dirk Pitt & Co. mit gegen die fiktiven (?) Bösewichte der Welt. CC rules! :-)

Just re-read this book for the third time (first time was in 1986 at the tender age of 11, then again in 2004). Hard-core, vintage Cussler, much more violent, profane, and sexually explicit than the newer, watered-down, PG-level Dirk Pitt books...and ergo much more entertaining. UPDATE AS OF 18SEP2023: I just finished reading “Vixen 03,” which I’ve never done with any other full-length novel. And since I let more than a decade elapse since the last reading, enough details and particulars had faded from my memory that there was a sufficient degree of freshness and surprise. What’s more, I now have an even greater appreciation for plots elements of the novel, thanks to some additional life experiences since the previous reading, namely: (1) touring the actual USS Iowa battleship a half-dozen times;(2) working closely with and befriending a ton of South Africans (blacks, whites, Coloreds, and Indians alike) in my overseas contracting stints; and (3) living and working in “The Beltway,” i.e. the Washington DC Metropolitan area.

Another good Pitt adventure book! My husband loves them..... ....... ..... .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

This is the first Cussler novel I ever read - thanks to my sister who bought it for me as a present over 25 years ago. I was intrigued by the subplot upon subplot and found it almost impossible to put down once I started reading it.....Now I have it on Kindle, it still holds the same mystery and intrigue and was a pleasure to read and catch up with 'old friends'

Clive Cussler excels his own standards. The book is a page turner. Eerily Cussler and is QD ring a bell today - in the times of the Covid.