#82 in Thriller
Vixen 03
- 362
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Vixen 03” is a high-stakes Dirk Pitt adventure built on a lost cargo of biological weapons and a threat to Washington. A military plane carrying a deadly organism vanishes in 1954; decades later Pitt finds its wreck in a frozen Colorado lake, with two canisters gone. Some readers enjoy the action, especially near the end; others find its portrayal of Black characters and of women hard to stomach today. It is the fourth Pitt novel.
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About the book
1954 Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the south Pacific and bearing several canisters of a particularly virulent organism, vanishes. Believed ditched at sea, Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, on holiday, discovers remnants of Vixen 03. The lethal canisters are raised—but they're not all accounted for. It turns out that two of them are in the hands of an African terrorist group. The group's mission: to attack nothing less than Washington, D.C. The catch is that the group is not aware that it will be firing anything but conventional missiles. But Pitt knows—and so does the president of the United States. To complicate matters further, the World War II ghost ship bearing the catastrophic warheads up the Potomac cannot be blown out of the water. Pitt's problems are compounded when he and his lady, a United States congresswoman, becomes the target of a vicious blackmail scheme.
Reading order · Dirk Pitt
Full order & progress →- The Mediterranean CaperStart here
7.47.4 / 10 - Iceberg
7.67.6 / 10 - Raise the Titanic!
7.77.7 / 10 - Vixen 03This book
7.87.8 / 10 - Night Probe!
7.77.7 / 10 - Pacific Vortex!
7.67.6 / 10 - Deep Six
7.87.8 / 10 - Cyclops
7.87.8 / 10 - Treasure
7.87.8 / 10 - Dragon
–Not ranked yet - Sahara
7.97.9 / 10 - Inca Gold
7.87.8 / 10 - Shock Wave
–Not ranked yet - Flood Tide
7.57.5 / 10 - Atlantis Found
7.77.7 / 10 - Valhalla Rising
7.67.6 / 10 - Trojan OdysseyTrojan Odyssey–Not ranked yet
- Black Wind
7.67.6 / 10 - Treasure of Khan
–Not ranked yet - Arctic Drift
–Not ranked yet - Crescent Dawn
–Not ranked yet - Poseidon's Arrow
–Not ranked yet - Havana Storm
–Not ranked yet - Odessa Sea
–Not ranked yet - Celtic Empire
–Not ranked yet - Clive Cussler's The Devil's SeaClive Cussler's The Devil's Sea–Not ranked yet
- Clive Cussler's The Corsican ShadowClive Cussler's The Corsican Shadow–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 26 | 34% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 50 | 66% |
Frequently asked
How long is Vixen 03?
It has 362 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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