Dirk Pitt · Book 1

The Mediterranean Caper

by Clive Cussler

Published
1 January 1973
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9780671670429
Type
novel

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About this book

The Mediterranean Caper is the book that opens Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series, published in 1973 at 256 pages. It's the natural place to begin the 28-book series, and is followed here by Iceberg.

Its place in Dirk Pitt

The Mediterranean Caper is book 1 in the Dirk Pitt series. It is followed by Iceberg. See the full Dirk Pitt reading order.

Dirk Pitt is the Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), a marine engineer and adventurer who spends every novel diving on shipwrecks, raising sunken relics, and stumbling into conspiracies that only he and his oldest friend Al Giordino can untangle. Clive Cussler built the series (and the men's-adventure subgenre it helped define) around a simple formula that has powered it since 1973: a historical mystery tied to a real or plausible sunken ship or lost artifact, a…

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