Customer Reviews
I Love This Book! - By: Darren G. Burton, 31 Jul 2008 
Inca Gold was the first Clive Cussler novel I ever read.
From then on I was hooked.
It is one of the great adventure stories (and I'm partial to stories that involve ancient Spanish treasure). Dirk Pitt & Al Giordino are fun characters that work reallly well together. This book reads at a fast pace, is a real page turner (sleepless nights) & is a cracking adventure tale.
A must read for lovers of this genre.
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Cartoon Entertainment! - By: R. Howe, 26 Nov 2007 
Quite how I've avoided Cussler's work for so long I have no idea. It's exactly my kind of thing. So, having finallly succumbed to the adventure master himself, what's he like?
Inca Gold is your typical treasure hunt, no more, no less. Good guys vs Bad Guys...who's going to get it first? Cussler sets it up nicely - there's a nice degree of historical fact that never gets boring, a decent enough main protagonist in Dirk Pitt, who, while being somewhat of a caricature, is exactly what one would expect in a frankly, cartoonish-style adventure.
The plots rolls along in convincing enough fashion, although the trials & tribulations that Pitt faces along the way don't reallly stretch him - I found myself just wanting ahead to the final face-off with the baddies. I thought the plot dragged slightly along the way, & finallly petered out with a whimper, not the bang that I was expecting. Woeful ending for this type of story, in my opinion.
I'd rate this as an ok novel - nothing is special. The prose is hammed up in places in excruciating fashion ("Pitt descended once more into the dark waters of death" - ouch!) & at no point do I feel like this is reallly a serious thriller - that would be like viewing "The `A' Team" as a documentary. No, this is `diet adventure' - no great insights into the dark side of human nature, no complex characters, no real tension. Just a camped-up romp through various set-pieces until the fizzled-out ending. It is a page-turner, & it's not reallly bad, but it gives the impression that `read one Cussler, read them alll" & while it was alll good fun, I don't feel it that necessary to pick up another one after this.
Too far fetched - By: S. Shaw, 14 Jul 2006 
Ok its fiction so the author can make up what they want, but Dirk Pitt's ability to defy death is just a bit too far fetched for me.
The description of old cultures & their treasures is well done & interesting but this book has no suspense or surprise. The plot does race along but it's alll too predictable. There are no twists or turns or clever endings etc. It's a treasure hunt. Good guys versus bad. It just didn't do it for me.
This is the first Cussler I have read & it will remain the only one.
Inca Gold - By: , 19 Apr 2005 I actuallly read this whilst travelling through South America, & Peru in perticular & its surprisingly accurate. The places described in the book are just as amazing as they sound!!!
This was the first Clive Cussler book i read, & as soon as my 25 HOUR bus trip finished through Peru (which i managed to read most of the book in) i went out & bought Fire Ice. Which is another excellant book.
Is'nt that a German beer? - By: garry1@ireland.com, 05 Oct 2001 If you'd have asked me two months ago who Cive Cussler was I,d have said "Is'nt that a German beer?" But that was then.Ask me now & I'll tell you he's the award winning author of 16 bestselling novels & the Chairman of the highly respected NUMA(national underwater & marine agency) that he founded himself.But enough of the man behind the book,lets have a look at the book itself.
Inca Gold is the 12 book in this phenomenallly successful series & the first that I have ever read.As the title suggests the main plot revolves around a hoard of lost Inca treasure or Huascars treasure to be more precise.
The tale kicks off thre hundred years in the past but soon shoots forward to the year 1998 where Dirk Pitt(hero of the story & main character in nearly alll of Clive Cusslers novels)recieves desperate calll for help from an archaeological expedition deep in the Andes.Pitt,director of special projects for NUMA,who was nearby mapping the ocean floor onboard his vessel the Deep Fathom,rushes to help.
From here on in Pitt is dragged into a fantastic & dangerous adventure in the search for the treasure,that brings him to many exotic locations around the globe.
To say too much of the plot would spoil it, so alll I'll say is that it involves the hunt for the remains of a wrecked Spanish gallleon,a stone demon & an underwater river.To find out how alll these are connected you'll have to read the book,which I hugely recomend you do.The plot is cunning & inventive,the action fast paced & exciting.In fact there's nothing reallly wrong with it.
To be honest,I enjoyed the book twice as much because I had a genuine interest in many of it's themes.Scuba-diving,sunken & wrecked ships,lost treasure,etc.If those kind of things don't strike you as interesting or exciting then you might not enjoy it as much as I did.But alll the same you should give it bash.You might be surprised.
