Crescent Dawn: Dirk Pitt #21

Clive Cussler · Dirk Cussler

Dec 2011 · Penguin UK

About this eBook

Dirk Pitt must fight another perilous battle in Clive Cussler's Atlantis Found.

An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . .

Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts.

Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans succeeding...

Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawn is a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue. Crescent Dawn is the twenty-first of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk Pitt novels - the series that also includes Inca Gold and, his first novel,Mayday - co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler, in which hero Dirk Pitt finds himself caught between artefacts and fanatics.


Praise for Clive Cussler:

'No holds barred adventure ... a souped-up treat' Daily Mirror

'Frightening and full of suspense ... unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express

Ratings and reviews

Promising start, but slow, with several different storylines which come together after about 200 pages- Sorry to say it's predictive and unrealistic. The last section discovering a 4th century Roman vessel, apparently intact, with skeletons, clothing wooden weapons and artifacts still intact hidden in a coastal cave that no-one has ever discovered before is downright farcical and comical- However, after a boring storyline it did give me a jolly good laugh. Avoid this unless you're totally gullible.

Sat on my side table for over 2 years while I read other books cover to cover. Have read every CC book to this point. To be blunt, I'm not sure when he made the call to sell out, but I'd guess this was it.

Pretty much what you expect from Mr C, twists and turns that means you just have to turn the next page

About the author

Clive Cussler (Author)
Clive Cussler was the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Celtic Empire; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently Fast Ice; the Oregon Files, such as Marauder; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase; and the recent Fargo Adventures, which lastly included Wrath of Poseidon. Cussler died in 2020.

Dirk Cussler (Author)
Dirk Cussler, the son of Clive Cussler, has an MBA from Berkeley. He is the co-author of Crescent Dawn, Black Wind, Treasure of Khan, Arctic Drift, Poseidon's Arrow, Havana Storm, Odessa Sea, and Celtic Empire, and continued the Dirk Pitt series with The Devil's Sea.