The Mediterranean Caper
by Clive Cussler · first published 1973
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Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.
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on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗…but importantly, they feel like it.) From the books here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Cussler#Bibliography, 'Dirk Pitt Adventures', which he wrote himself: * The very old ones, Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, and Iceberg, are definitely dated. They also include some distasteful treatment of women and transexuals. The harsh (physically) behaviour to women seems to be Cussler's attempt to channel a Bond-like…
on “Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine” ↗There's a novel I read years ago that had a similar idea. It was a Clive Cussler book: The Mediterranean Caper. The smuggling plot had a modified submarine containing the narcotics attached to cargo vessels & it would detach from the cargo vessel at inspection times. It wasn't a great book and it felt kind of…
on “To Smuggle More Drugs, Traffickers Go Under the Sea” ↗Great hustle story ... He began writing fiction at home in the late 60s, but his first two books, “Pacific Vortex” and “The Mediterranean Caper,” were repeatedly rejected. Unable even to get an agent, he staged a hoax. Using the letterhead of a fictitious writers’ agency, he wrote to the agent Peter Lampack, posing as an old colleague about to…
on “Clive Cussler, Best-Selling Author and Adventurer, Is Dead at 88” ↗