Adventure Annotation - Poseidon's Arrow

Poseidon's Arrow by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Adventure. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2012.

An out-of-control freighter interrupts Dirk Pitt’s vacation. A mine is attacked. Other freighters have gone missing. When researchers who are developing a prototype for a fast attack submarine vanish, Dirk Pitt and NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency are called as consultants to assist NCIS agent Ann Bennett in the search. The search leads to an action filled adventure that has Pitt, Ann and NUMA teams hopping around the globe to exotic locations on land, on the seas and on the ocean floor.

The action is non-stop, and most chapters have someone or something being shot, stabbed, blown up, burned, wrecked or drowned. While it shows Pitt as happily married, there is not a romantic dimension to the story. The plot focuses instead on the action of the unfolding events and moves from one danger to the next.
The characters are fairly cut and dried. Pitt, Ann and NUMA are action heroes, and there is a villain with a world-spanning evil plot.

The tone is urgent: need to move, need to catch up, need to get away, or need to keep breathing.

The language is mostly uncomplicated. However, there are some descriptions of ships and naval equipment. Also, for a book with non-stop action, mayhem, and piracy it was notably devoid of profanity.
GoodReads.com has some information on this and other series: this book is the 22^nd in the Dirk Pitt series. Poseidon’s Arrow was co-authored by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. There are related series with Clive Cussler as an author. The most recent in the related NUMA Files is Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. The most recent in the Oregon Files is Mirage by Dirk Cussler and Jack Du Brul.  All three series are marine adventures series.

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