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Sahara Clive Cussler is the self-proclaimed Grand Master of Adventure. A more accurate statement would be that he is a cross between Alastair MacLean and Tom Clancy, but far inferior to both. He takes the rugged sailor/secret agent of MacLean and fuses him with the American jingoism and techno-crap of Clancy. It is an unhappy mix, which is made all the worse by the fact that his books have exactly the same formula - every bloody time! Our hero is Dirk Pitt, a US Government marine engineer who manages to get sent on missions as a secret agent. He claims to value human life, but kills without mercy at the slightest excuse. We meet him when he saves the damsel in distress - like James Bond there is usually a different one every book. A rich industrialist [never an American one!] threatens to create a catastrophe of global proportions. Pitt and the USA come to the rescue. There is lots of preachy moralising about how the USA is superior to the rest of the world. In a piece of extreme egotism, Cussler gives himself a cameo appearance. Search This Site