Iceberg (1975)
Iceberg is a 1975 adventure and adventurers book written by Clive Cussler.
Dirk Pitt gets pulled off a California beach and dropped into the North Atlantic freeze. A long-missing luxury yacht has turned up frozen inside a million-ton iceberg, its crew dead at their posts, its cargo gone, and that cargo could tip the balance of world power. Working for NUMA under the cigar-chomping Admiral Sandecker, Pitt follows the trail from the bleak Iceland tundra to the black cold of the deep, chasing a billionaire who likes to play God. Clive Cussler writes it fast and broad, all salt spray and gadgets and last-second escapes. Comfort food for readers who like their adventure oversized.
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What is Iceberg about?
Dirk Pitt gets pulled off a California beach and dropped into the North Atlantic freeze. A long-missing luxury yacht has turned up frozen inside a million-ton iceberg, its crew dead at their posts, its cargo gone, and that cargo could tip the balance of world power. Working for NUMA under the cigar-chomping Admiral Sandecker, Pitt follows the trail from the bleak Iceland tundra to the black cold of the deep, chasing a billionaire who likes to play God. Clive Cussler writes it fast and broad, all salt spray and gadgets and last-second escapes. Comfort food for readers who like their adventure oversized.
When was Iceberg published?
Iceberg was published in 1975.
Who made Iceberg?
Iceberg was written by Clive Cussler.
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Sahara put Dirk Pitt on screen with Matthew McConaughey, the same globe-trotting hunt for a lost ship and a buried secret. And the Uncharted games hand you the controller version of a Pitt novel: a wisecracking adventurer, exotic ruins, a rival racing for the prize, and set pieces that never quite let you catch your breath.
Pulpy adventure thrillers that send their heroes chasing something across the globe
Dirk Pitt chases a stolen fortune from a California beach to a frozen North Atlantic wreck, and these picks share that same pulpy, globe-spanning momentum. Sahara puts Cussler's own hero on screen, Uncharted 2 borrows his swashbuckling treasure hunts wholesale, Largo Winch trades submarines for boardrooms with the same billionaire-adventurer energy, and Jack Ryan: Ghost War keeps the espionage stakes just as high.