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 was the author of more than eighty books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt®, NUMA Files®, Oregon Files®, Isaac Bell®, and Sam and Remi Fargo®. His life nearly paralleled that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers discovered and surveyed more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley, which was raised in 2000 with much publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collected classic automobiles. His collection featured more than one hundred examples of custom coachwork. Cussler passed away in February 2020.