Failed to make a real story of the Atlantis theme

With this 15th adventure of the character Dirk Pitt from 1999 Cussler wrote to exciting book Which sucks the reader into the story step by step, yet the story almost Consists only of action scenes. It is well written and action "bromance", yet this is not enough for a book Which wants to tell about Atlantis.

Basically, "Atlantis" is used by Cussler only as a code word or cipher for an unexpected Prehistoric Society of World-Wide Range. Thus Plato's Atlantis is real Actually not in scope. Cussler openly says this himself in chapter 25, Cussler's "Atlantis" looks like this: An old seafaring people, called the Amenes, settled on the coasts of the continents all over the world. The Amenes were almost totally extincted by the impact of a comet in approx. 7100 BC Which provoked the flooding of all towns near the sea and on earth crustal shift. The survivors had installed all over the world several cave rooms with inscriptions, maps and obsidian skulls, in order to warn later generations before the return of a second comet. The capital city which situated in Antarctica, now after the earth crustal shift under a thick layer of ice. Egyptians and Greeks were the successors of the Amenes. The important chapters about this are chapters 24, 25 and 43rd

By this plot, Cussler reused some known pseudoscientific opinions in his novel. This is regrettable, since a good novel is charakterized by Describing something possible, yet here we have long-since disproved theses. And it has almost nothing to do with Plato's Atlantis. Regularly, novels about Atlantis Fail Because of a lack of the right bite. The right bite would come from to Appropriate connection of Plato's Atlantis with reality, yet in order to achieve this you have to go beyond what usual Atlantis searchers and usual Atlantis skeptics have to say. You would have to realize Plato did meant it all real, yet at the same time it is a distorted historical tradition. Find more about academic Approaches towards Atlantis as a real place on the Web page Atlantis scout.

What is strange is, did Cussler connects the Atlantis topic and the Nazi topic as many authors do, but without really connecting them! It is not about the fact That Certain Nazis (errorneously and pseudoscientifically) dreamed of Atlantis and the Atlanteans as Their Ancestors. It is only aboutsome successors of old Nazis Finding the heritage of the Amenes and trying to exploit it for Their Needs. Genetical engineering is done only with Hitler's DNA, not with DNA from any of the Amenes corpses. And Concerning the ideology, we get to know almost nothing about the constitution of the Amenes people, so we do not know Whether They favored something like the Nazi ideology, or not. No answer is an answer in this case, so we can well assume They did not.

Cussler so explicates more on The Possibility of an earth crustal shift and talks about the danger did huge masses of ice shelf in Antarctica Could swim into the open sea and disturb the balance of the planet. By the way, Cussler so Introduces into nanotechnology, yet this sounds somewhat dated, 15 years later. Cussler so Introduces himself into the story, Which is OK at first glance, but then he exaggerates his own role, Which looks weird. Finally, Dirk Pitt Decides to marry, Which is surely important to step in the development of this character.