title: Havana Storm: A Dirk Pitt Adventure
author:  Clive Cussler 
description: <b><b>Praise for <i>Havana Storm</i></b></b><br /> <br /> Dirk Pitt is still going strong.<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br /> <b>Praise for Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt</b><br /> <br /> Dirk Pitt is oceanographys answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapesCusslers fans come for swashbuckling [and] he delivers.Associated Press
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  ### FOREWORD
  
  
  
  
  
  Not that it really matters, but this is the first Dirk Pitt story.
  
  
  
  
  
  When I mustered up the discipline to write a suspense/adventure series, I cast
  around for a hero who cut a different mold. One who wasn’t a secret agent,
  police detective, or a private investigator. Someone with rough edges, yet a
  degree of style, who felt equally at ease entertaining a gorgeous woman in a
  gourmet restaurant or downing a beer with the boys at the local saloon. A
  congenial kind of guy with a tinge of mystery about him.
  
  
  
  
  
  Instead of a gambling casino or the streets of New York, his territory became
  the sea, his challenge, the unknown.
  
  
  
  
  
  Out of the fantasy, Dirk Pitt materialized.
  
  
  
  
  
  Because this was his first adventure, and because it does not weave the
  intricate plots of his later exploits, I was reluctant to submit it for
  publishing. But at the urging of my friends and family, fans and readers,
  Pitt’s introduction is now in your hands.
  
  
  
  
  