Title: FLOOD TIDEAuthor: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, first published in 1997.
Genre: Action-Adeventure
Main Characters: Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino, Juan Cabrillo
Quote from the book: "Qin Shang never intended to make the United States into a New Orleans hotel and gambling casino," Pitt explained dryly. "He plans to use it as diversionary dam. Once the ship's nine-hundred-ninety-foot hull with its height of ninety feet is scuttled diagonally across the river, it will block ninety percent of the Mississippi's flow, sending one enormous flood tide through the shattered levee into the Atchafalaya."
Description: Flood Tide is Clive Cussler's fourteenth novel featuring action-hero Dirk Pitt. In this story, Pitt and his close pal Al Giordino finds them going head-to-head against a Chinese business tycoon, Qin Shang, who is obsessed with power, money and objects of architectural value. Most Chinese characters are portrayed in a negative shade. We might even feel that the whole of China is given a negative shade and unlike most other stories Flood Tide also features a not-so-good U.S. President. This novel also gives an introduction to Chairman Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and other characters of Cussler's Oregon Files.
Verdict: Not the fastest of Cussler's novels but still an ingenious plot and a very powerful villain gets you going.
RATING: 3.5/5
