Night Probe!

#120 in Adventure

Night Probe!

Clive Cussler

First published 1981Original language EN

7.77.7 / 10
Score out of 1051 ratingsConfidence 26%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#120 of 180 in Adventure ahead of 34% of the category
384
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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Our view

“Night Probe!” is a lively Dirk Pitt adventure built around a secret treaty lost beneath the Atlantic. With the country starved of energy, the President sends Pitt after the original agreement between Washington and London, while a counterplot in Britain works to keep it buried. Some readers enjoy the diplomatic intrigue and the historical backstory, though not all of them warm to Pitt’s thread with a British agent or to the treaty’s politics.

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About the book

In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. The original document must be found—and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt. But in London, a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. Brian Shaw, a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents, now confronts his most challenging command. Pitt’s mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Shaw’s mission: Stop Pitt. Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet—the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it’s worth a war. Pitt’s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britian’s most cunning secret agent—and into the throes of a torrid love triangle.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 51 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library6.85 10%
Hardcover7.346 90%

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