Deep Six

#57 in Thriller

Deep Six

Clive Cussler

First published 1984Original language EN

7.87.8 / 10
Score out of 10131 ratingsConfidence 47%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#57 of 200 in Thriller ahead of 72% of the category
470
Pages
about 9 h
Reading time

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About the book

For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos. It's left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker's yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip . . . 'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Daily Express

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.9 across 131 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.280 61%
Hardcover7.351 39%

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