Night Probe! (Dirk Pitt Adventure Series Book 6)

Probe! (Dirk Pitt, book 6) by Clive Cussler - book cover, description, publication history. (The sixth book in the Dirk Pitt series) Title: Night Probe! (Dirk Pitt) Author(s): Clive Cussler ISBN: / (USA edition).
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The Canadian president narrowly survives an assassination attempt by Foss Gly, who attempts to shoot down his airliner. Faking delirium, her husband sets a trap for her by telling her to put more guards on their giant hydroelectric dam that provides energy to one-fourth of the United States. Villon uses this information to attempt to blackmail the United States by shutting off all power to the US for five seconds. The Brits get wind of the treaty and send in their top [retired] agent to get the goods from Heidi by seducing her. They know she has a thing for older men.

We first see Shaw at a funeral for his old boss - one can only assume it is 'M' who has passed away and the former "Moneypenny" is speaking with him at the funeral. He does seduce Heidi and finds out everything she knows about the treaty. She never stops to consider that he might be pumping her for information. Dirk is nearly killed in an experimental submersible while testing the odd craft along the northern Canadian shoreline by a USN nuclear attack sub. When he reports to Admiral Sandecker about their underwater findings, Sandecker is amazed at how well their vessel has worked.

This allows NUMA to find a vast oil field in a stratigraphic trap; the downside is that the oil field is located inside Quebec-waters. Dirk is ordered to dive on the Empress if Ireland as well as to find the Manhattan Limited in order to locate a copy of the lost treaty. He ends up saving Brian Shaw's life while searching the Empress of Ireland. Gly is ready to kill the British agent when Pitt intervenes. Gly ends up detonating explosives smuggled onto the Empress to destroy everybody's plans and to kill as many people as possible; his ploy fails.

Despite his best efforts, the treaty has been ruined by the water over the course of time. Now Pitt has to find the Manhattan Limited. One would think after having been burnt by Shaw Heidi would be on her guard around this guy, but he seduces her a second time and AGAIN gets top-secret information out of her through the seduction. You'd think the girl would have learned the first time! They figure out that the train is probably buried in a mine somewhere. But in an interesting turn of events, Shaw is released by Pitt at the end of the story so that Shaw can take Heidi back to Britain and they can live happily ever after.

This is one of the few times where Dirk does not get the girl [or have the girl in his arms] at the end of the book. The unidentified floating vessel signals back that they are a guided missile cruiser and will be more than happy to blow the Canadians out of the water [my paraphrase].

I laughed quite a bit when reading that segment the first couple of times, and it still brings a smile to my face. In the end, Foss Gly appears to die [I say 'appears' because he survives to show up in Cuba in Cyclops]. Danielle and Villon die. Oddly enough, Shaw does not die. And we find out view spoiler [ the American president and the Canadian president have been planning for the day to come when the United States and the Canadian Provinces will become one country hide spoiler ].

The whole treaty where Canada and the US become one country is a great idea. Especially when one considers the amount of mineral wealth and resources that have been discovered in Canadian waters [territories]. Yet nothing is ever said again of Canada and the US becoming one country in future stories. It should have been mentioned several times, in my opinion, in future books. It was kind of a let down, especially after how the author has carried some sub-plots over from one book to the next.

For instance, the 'doodlebug' was built specifically due to the actions of Meta Section, which was the think tank started by the former president discussed in Raise the Titanic. It does not detract from my overall enjoyment of the book. I loved how James Bond shows up in the book and is Dirk Pitt's opponent. It is more than fitting, and it makes the book that much more delightful. I thought it was a nice homage to the British super spy, and the author did splendid job by utilizing the character like he did.

It was pretty funny in parts, in my opinion.

Night Probe! (Dirk Pitt, book 6) by Clive Cussler

Definitely made the book worth the reading. Jul 08, Mark Harrison rated it liked it. Excellent adventure tale as Pitt tries to salvage a missing train and a passenger liner to find a treaty ceding Canada to the USA. British agents battle against him and there are lots of good action sequences. All in all a good engaging thriller.

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Jul 04, Eric Bauman rated it really liked it Shelves: You know that one favorite restaurant of yours? And it is always so good! You know the place? I have read all but the last two Pitt books—and am rereading them You know that one favorite restaurant of yours? This time, the story starts in , before World War I begins.

Meanwhile, an American envoy with another important piece of paper is on the Manhattan Limited, a train headed back down the Hudson towards Washington during a storm when a bridge spanning the river collapses and the train disappears.


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Meanwhile, Quebec is making noises like it wants to separate from the rest of Canada. The pieces of paper that the men 75 years previously come to life, and Pitt now finds himself in charge to salvage operations to find those papers, which could have a monumental effect of history. Aug 13, Bev Taylor rated it really liked it.

This is a superb example of Cussler's oeuvre. It has action, great scenes, suspense and even a homage to James Bond. Although Raise the Titanic broke Cussler into superstardom, this book was, to this reader, his best. Nowadays with his co-written books on the best seller list monthly, its a good idea to go back and read the books that got him there. Mar 09, Fredrick Danysh rated it liked it. When two couriers carrying copies of the treaty disappear a cover up takes place. Decades later when world energy supplies dwindle, the American president renews efforts to find and enforce the treaty despite the efforts of both the British and a radical French-Canadian group.

Sep 30, Isaac Langley rated it really liked it. It had a lot of action. I thought that it was very good. Clive Cussler does a very good job at writing the Dirk Pitt collection. In this book Dirk has to find a treaty that has been buried in the sea for a long time, but the British don't want him to.

Feb 02, Lee rated it really liked it Shelves: This Dirk Pitt adventure was a dangerous one for our hero. With a high body count, corrupt politician's imagine that? This had the feel of a spy novel, with the action of a Pitt novel. Sep 03, Ryan Scicluna rated it really liked it Shelves: James Bond meets Dirk Pitt.

No seriously there is James bond in this novel by Clive Cussler. Sep 19, Joanne rated it really liked it. I just love these books. Dirk Pitt is one of my favorite characters. These books just keep getting better. Jun 03, Roopkumar Balachandran rated it really liked it Shelves: Heidi Milligan discovers of an old crumpled letter in a university archive which leads into obscure and long lost document of North American Treaty. In early the British were aware that war with Germany was just around the corner. Britain was scraping the bottom of its treasury when it entered World War I.

Richard Esse Heidi Milligan discovers of an old crumpled letter in a university archive which leads into obscure and long lost document of North American Treaty. United States loaned million dollars for war effort which was a down payment. Before the Treaty comes into force the two copies of the document were lost to time, after Harvey Shields traveling in Empress of Ireland collided with a coal collier sinks and subsequently another copy of the document with Richard Essex, traveling in Manhattan Limited train falls from the Deauville-Hudson bridge killing everyone.

Heidi has a crush with old man Brain Shaw who is actually a spy serving on her Majestic secret service. The President of the United States facing a power crisis gets to know about the treaty through Dirk Pitt. NUMA team starts their work. The assassination attempt over Charles flight fails. The mystery and suspense is revealed in the subsequent chapters by Ace story teller Clive Cussler. A fabulous story entwined with greater suspense. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. In every story Dirk Pitt encounters his evil adversary. But this adversary is a patriotic spy, Brain Shaw. Both respect each other, to me Brain Shaw resembled aged James Bond having same characteristics charm and seduction.

In the final pages Pitt mentions to Brain, that James Bond will be proud of Shaw and they were quite close. Like other novel I noticed some one liners of Pitt which I want to quote: Pitt, would you agree? Pitt closed his briefcase and stood up. I'm a marine engineer, Mr. I steer well clear of political involvement. Strange, you don't look like the devil. Shaw had never doubted where he would eventually wind up. On previous encounter Harrison Moon was tossed by Pitt when he was not allowed to meet the President in the White House.

After knowing about Pitt, Moon meets Pitt in old car auction. Pitt turned and looked into the babyish face of Harrison Moon IV. Funny, Pitt said without surprise, you didn't strike me as the type who would be interested in old cars. Actually, I'm interested in you. Pitt gave him an amused look. If you're gay, you're wasting your time. View all 8 comments. Jul 21, Bill Seaward rated it it was ok. The sequence of events were too unbelievable to be enjoyable. Results way to convenient.

Aug 17, Philip rated it really liked it. A real page turner. My first Cussler novel. I picked it off the shelf at our old cabin and ended up ignoring my kids all weekend they weren't too happy with me: It must take some special talents to write books like these that you simply can't put down. May 19, Ken rated it really liked it Shelves: Planes, trains, and automobiles may have been a favorite of Cussler's having read through many of his books. I'm reading through several of his series Pitt, Fargo, Oregon, and Bell and have begun to notice the great love he has for the aforementioned vehicles.

This book is again another exciting book in the Dirk Pitt series. Has some of the typical plot lines but also some twists that are not easily predicted. May 03, Brett Thomasson rated it it was ok Shelves: Before Clive Cussler and his "co-authors" worked themselves into a several-books-a-year publishing schedule, as much as three years would elapse between the adventures of National Underwater and Marine Agency scientist, adventurer and Square-Jawed Hero Dirk Pitt.

So although Night Probe came out eight years after Pitt debuted, it's only the fifth Pitt adventure and we can see Cussler still working on his storytelling groove. Set in , seven years after the publication date, we find a United St Before Clive Cussler and his "co-authors" worked themselves into a several-books-a-year publishing schedule, as much as three years would elapse between the adventures of National Underwater and Marine Agency scientist, adventurer and Square-Jawed Hero Dirk Pitt.

Set in , seven years after the publication date, we find a United States on the verge of economic collapse because of the depletion of Middle Eastern oil supplies and the lack of native-generated alternatives. Almost a quarter of the nation depends on power generated by a massive Canadian hydroelectric plant, but Canada faces the possibility of Quebec seceding from the nation and causing the kind of chaos a precariously-balanced situation doesn't need.

Milligan's work brings the treaty to the notice of the president, who directs NUMA and Pitt to locate copies believed to have sunk in the St. Lawrence River after a horrific train accident in Great Britain, on the other hand, would rather the treaty stay buried and so recalls retired agent Brian Shaw to learn what Milligan knows and stop the recovery.

There's quite a bit of skullduggery amongst the various parties of Quebecois separatists, high-level domestic intrigue and bed-hopping, British military secret missions and et cetera and et cetera. Cussler wildly overplots the story and overindulges himself with characters, villainy and geopolitical gamesmanship and commentary that he's not particularly equipped to handle -- one notes the fact that Middle Eastern oil reserves did not run out in the early s, for example.

It would be a few books later before Cussler took his strengths -- action scenes, underwater exploration and maritime and oceanographic expertise and straight-ahead, no-frills talespinning -- and drilled down to keep them in the forefront of the Pitt adventures. Night Probe shows a number of those already present, but mires them in way too much et cetera to rank much above middling in the series.

Jan 24, Balkron rated it liked it Shelves: I can't believe I read it once 3 Star - Average book, Was entertaining but nothing special. I can't wait for the next book.

I Will Re-Read this one or more times. Characters - The characters are great and what make these stories come alive. I have to say Dirk Pitt is one of my favorite characters in a book series. His buddy Al always puts a smile on my face. I really like the characters. Story - The stories are average and fairly typical. I really like the NUMA settings for the stories. In general these are just entertaining situations to place some really fun characters Dirk and Al.

Overall - I started reading these when I was I enjoyed them up until about age I would recommend reading these especially for younger males. I am going to rate these all the books in this series the same except for Treasure which was the first one I read and what caused me to read all the others. Some of the stories are a bit better or a bit worse but I can't find 1 except for Treasure that would rate a 2 or 4.

Dirk Pitt: Night Probe! by Clive Cussler (1981, Hardcover)

Jan 31, Ed rated it really liked it Shelves: Published in , this series entry takes place in the near future of after a prologue. Two undercover couriers plummet to watery deaths in twin disasters, taking with them the only two copies of the North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain.

On both sides of the Atlantic, stunned heads of state immediately order all mention of the treaty obliterated… forever. February 5 in the Dirk Pitt series. 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 — prompting the President of the United States to the shocking realization that the treaty offers the only salvation for an energy-starved, economically-devastated America.

For the United States, possession of this document is suddenly worth billions. The deadly race is on to locate and raise one of the signed copies of the treaty from its ocean grave — where it has been lying for 75 years. The hangar houses his classic and antique car collection, as well as a Messerschmitt Me aircraft, a Ford trimotor aircraft, a Pullman railroad dining car, and a totem pole.

The hangar also contains items collected from prior adventures, such as a cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor fixed to one end, and is protected by a state-of-the-art security system. Pitt occasionally adds classic cars to his collection purloined from a variety of antagonists over the course of his adventures.

In the course of his work as a marine engineer of the National Underwater and Marine Agency NUMA , an oceanographic research organization headed by Admiral James Sandecker with Rudi Gunn as second in command, Dirk Pitt has made numerous important shipwreck discoveries, and he has also thwarted a large number of plans by villains intent on global catastrophe or world domination.

Despite this appointment, Pitt is uncomfortable with his desk job, and still personally heads projects in the field, becoming entangled in villainous plots just as easily as before his promotion. The events of Pacific Vortex! In fact, several events in Pacific Vortex! The series does not have to be read in order, since each book stands by itself. Pitt has twice appeared on the big screen, in movie adaptations of Raise the Titanic! On 10 March , Judge John P. In his ruling, Judge Shook agreed with lawyers for Crusader Entertainment that an original contract between the two parties called for an award of legal fees if either side breached.

He concluded that they were. Cussler sued Crusader in , claiming the company reneged on a contract that gave him approval rights over the film's screenplay, when, in fact, he only had those rights until a director was hired. Crusader, which is owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz , countersued, accusing Cussler of duping it into adapting his book into a film based on an inflated number of novels sold.

Jurors ruled in May in favor of the production company.

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