Valhalla Rising

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**Title** **Valhalla Rising**
1st Edition Hardcover
Author	Clive Cussler
Cover artist	Lawrence Ratzkin
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Dirk Pitt Novels
Genre(s)	Adventure; Techno-thriller
Publisher	G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Released	August 13, 2001 1st Edition Hardcover
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	531 (Hardcover edition)
ISBN	ISBN 0-399-14787-X
Preceded by	Atlantis Found
Followed by	Trojan Odyssey

Valhalla Rising is a 2001 Clive Cussler book in the Dirk Pitt series.

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Dirk Pitt has to stop an evil CEO of an oil and natural gas company in the US from establishing absolute monopoly over oil resources and supplies. It is a typical Dirk Pitt novel dealing with a countdown, bribed officials, and ruthless evil leaders. However in the end Dirk is approached by his 23-year old twin children and finds out from them that his former lover Summer hadn't actually died in an underwater earthquake (as Dirk had believed) but had survived and raised the kids herself because she didn't want Dirk to know about her injured and pathetic state after the earthquake.

[edit] Goofs

In chapter 12 one of the NUMA scientists claims the Titanic to have broken apart while she sank. In reality this really was the case. In Cussler's bestselling novel, however, Raise the Titanic! Dirk Pitt not only finds the ship to be in one piece, but was able to raise it to the surface and have her towed to New York Harbor. Of course Raise the Titanic! was written long before the real Titanic was discovered; the author couldn't have known about the ship's poor condition on the sea floor. Nevertheless, the storyline in Vallhalla Rising deviates from previous Dirk Pitt novels. The matter is complicated further in his next Pitt novel, Trojan Odyssey, which makes reference to Pitt's raising of the Titanic.

Dirk Pitt Novels