Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventure #4)

Will says: Dirk Pitt was the first action hero I spent any significant time with. He's a Jason Bourne–Indiana Jones–MacGyver type with the slightly-too-memorable unique name. This is the fourth book in its adventure series, but it’s the one that sticks with me. The U.S. government is after a precious mineral thought to only exist in a significant quantity aboard the RMS Titanic. They task Pitt and his crew with finding it, literally raising the massive ship to the surface and then towing it to shore to search for the missing mineral (based on then-current theories of the wreck, since this was a decade before the ship was actually found). Along the way, there’s international intrigue, double-crossing, and danger on the high seas. I still like a too-good-to-be-true hero in a long-running series that I can fall back on any time I'm feeling stuck in my reading life. I'm all caught up on the Cork O'Conner series but I’m still following along with Alex Carter, Anna Pigeon, Joe Pickett, and Walt Longmire.