Shock Wave

Clive Cussler

May 2019 · Dirk Pitt Adventures Book 13 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Scott Brick

About this audiobook

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

The thirteenth adrenaline-filled Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.

A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them.

Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death. When Pitt later uncovers the cause of the plague, he discovers that Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her two sisters are responsible because of their diamond-mining technology. A deadly race develops to stop Dorsett from continuing his murderous mining operations and to head off a disaster that will kill millions. Pitt's struggle to foil Dorsett's ruthless plan to destroy the market for diamonds and thus gain a monopoly of his own takes him from harrowing adventures off the west coast of Canada to being cast adrift in the Tasman Sea.

'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy

'The Adventure King' Daily Express

Ratings and reviews

I've always loved Clive Cussler's books and have read almost every one. I'm greatly disheartened to discover the disgusting transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+ themes in the story. The fact that this theme served no purpose to the plot makes it even more evident that Clive Cussler himself harbors these sentiments. Guess I'll find another favorite author. Shame.

This was a very enjoyable book to listen to. I'm a big fan of of the Dirk Pitt Series. I'm also glad to see that the publishers are reviving some of the older books in the audio format. I saw some reviews bashing the author for being insensitive to the LGBTQ Community and I have to wonder if they were smart enough to realize that this book was written in 1996. The world was a much different place back then. That being said without dropping any spoilers for the book there was never any bashing of any member of the LGBTQ Community through out the book as other reviewers would have you believe but there was some insensitivity towards the end. This was just another great book in the Dirk Pitt series.

clive custler is spiritually poor and bankrupt and not worth the powder to blow his brains out.

About the author

Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California. He later attended Pasadena City College for two years, but then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War where he served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service. Upon his discharge, he became a copywriter and later creative director for two leading ad agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards one at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. He began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt® in 1973.

Clive is the founder of the National Underwater & Marine Agency, (NUMA) a non-profit organisation that dedicates itself to American maritime and naval history, and a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He also collects classic automobiles. Clive divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.