![]() Like so many stories of this type and written in that era, the Americans and Soviets are highly cliched characters fitting the well worn stereotypes we have seen many times before. The story meanders its way along as the Americans desperately trace the whereabouts of the super rare element Bizanium. What sells this book is the Titanic itself and yet it is really only there as a secondary plot device for what this story really is, another Cold War espionage thriller. This novel, according to the release year of the printed edition, was written way back in 1976 and it shows. ![]() ![]() Not simply because the finding of the ship in question in 1985 and the state of destruction it was in rendered this story moot but the feel of the writing is very much of its time. Raise The Titanic is in the latter category. ![]()
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