There was no mystery, no earthiness, no sea-worn larrikin. In fact I thought he was a bit of an ass – not a good opinion to have of the leading man. Pitt read more like a mystery man, an enigma, a quiet hero, leaving out the humour and campiness of later volumes of the Pitt adventures. Consequently the film version of Pitt was so much worse. I enjoyed that the machismo was dialled back in the novel and this had a strong political strategy woven into the plot. In fact there are so many characters and scenes omitted in the film adaptation that I want to say the screen version is “inspired by” the original text, instead of an out-right adaptation. There were also a lot of characters that sometimes it took re-reading a passage to catch up with what was going on, especially at the start. The novel felt a bit different to the usual Dirk Pitt adventure from those I’ve read before.
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