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Arctic Drift
Hardcover first Edition
Author	Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Dirk Pitt Novels
Genre	Adventure
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	2008
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	576 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN	978-0-399-15529-1
OCLC	256771338
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3553.U75 A89 2008b
Preceded by	Treasure of Khan
Followed by	Crescent Dawn

Arctic Drift is a Dirk Pitt novel, the 20th of the series and was released on November 25, 2008.^[1]

Plot

The plot begins in the year 1847, when the Franklin Expedition becomes stranded trying to find the Northwest Passage. They experience a harsh winter. The men are seemingly going mad. Their stranded ships (Erebus and Terror) are loaded with a mysterious, unidentified silvery metal. The story switches to the present day. There is an ongoing quest to save the earth from Global Warming. All of the world's scientists are looking for a solution. Some people are trying to thwart these efforts. The NUMA team, headed by Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino and Dirk Pitt's children, Dirk Junior and Summer, are trying to find a way to stop Global Warming. Their quest leads them to investigate a series of mysterious asphyxiations. They soon realize that the solution they are looking for is hidden in the heart of the Arctic; in an old forgotten ship. They will need to solve a centuries-old mystery to save the earth.

Release Details

2008, United States, Michael Joseph LTD, ISBN 0-7181-5459-2, December 2008, Hardcover
2008, United States, G. P. Putnam's Sons, First Edition, ISBN 0-3991-5529-5, December 2008, Hardcover.
2008, United States, Norwood Press, Limited Edition, ISBN 978-0399-15529-1, December 2008, Hardcover.

References

^ Series sequence and release date from Amazon

Dirk Pitt

Novels

Adaptations

Raise the Titanic
Sahara

v t e Works by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt Adventures	The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Iceberg (1975) Raise the Titanic! (1976) Vixen 03 (1978) Night Probe! (1981) Pacific Vortex! (1983) Deep Six (1984) Cyclops (1986) Treasure (1988) Dragon (1990) Sahara (1992) Inca Gold (1994) Shock Wave (1996) Flood Tide (1997) Atlantis Found (1999) Valhalla Rising (2001) Trojan Odyssey (2003) Black Wind (2004) Treasure of Khan (2006) Arctic Drift (2008) Crescent Dawn (2010) Poseidon's Arrow (2012) Havana Storm (2014) Odessa Sea (2016) Celtic Empire (2018)
The NUMA Files	Serpent (1999) Fire Ice (2002) White Death (2003) Lost City (2004) Polar Shift (2005) The Navigator (2007) Medusa (2009) Devil's Gate (2011) The Storm (2012) Zero Hour (2013) Ghost Ship (2014) The Pharaoh's Secret (2015) Nighthawk (2017) The Rising Sea (2018)
Oregon Files	Golden Buddha (2003) Sacred Stone (2004) Dark Watch (2005) Skeleton Coast (2006) Plague Ship (2008) Corsair (2009) The Silent Sea (2010) The Jungle (2011) Mirage (2013) Piranha (2015) The Emperor's Revenge (2016) Typhoon Fury (2017) Shadow Tyrants (2018)
Isaac Bell Adventures	The Chase (2007) The Wrecker (2009) The Spy (2010) The Race (2011) The Thief (2012) The Striker (2013) The Bootlegger (2014) The Assassin (2015) The Gangster (2016) The Cutthroat (2017) The Titanic Secret (2019) The Saboteurs (2020)
Fargo Adventures	Spartan Gold (2009) Lost Empire (2010) The Kingdom (2011) The Tombs (2012) The Mayan Secrets (2013) The Eye of Heaven (2014) The Solomon Curse (2015) Pirate (2016) The Romanov Ransom (2017) The Gray Ghost (2018)
Non-fiction	The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996) The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)