Customer Reviews
Long, slightly confused but enjoyable. - By: D. Lodge, 06 Nov 2007 
Treasure is the second Cussler novel I have read. At exactly 600 pages it's not a short read & it is split into two stories.
The first story is Dirk Pitt's search for the great library & museum of Alexandria. Pitt knows that it exists & what the secret coastline looked like in 391AD but can he find the location in the world today?
The second story is about the rise of fundamentalist groups in Mexico & Egypt. These groups resort to terrorist activities & on three occasions Pitt encounters them & tries to foil their plans.
I found Treasure a bit hard going at times. It's enjoyable enough but the middle 300-400 pages are pretty much dedicated to beating terrorists & the search for the great lost treasures of Alexandria are put aside at the beginning of the book & the search doesn't restart until right at the end.
I grew up reading the classis books of Alistair MacLean & I think this is why Clive Cussler's work appeals to me. However, characters like Dirk Pitt are written in a very comic book larger than life style. Towards the end of the book I had lost interest in the original treasure hunt part of it as we'd spent so long dealing with terrorists.
Long & slightly confused. However, still enjoyable enough for me to continue reading his work. 6/10.
Treasure by Clive Cussler - By: J. townsend, 08 Aug 2006 
This book is faithful to the title it is beyond doubt a Treasure, from the very start it had me on the edge of my seat, & is one of the best of Clive Cusslers books, as a dedicated fan of Dirk Pitt, i thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, i only wish that the story was actuallly true, from the point of the vast knowledge that was lost when the library at Alexandria was destroyed, it would have been wonderful beyond words for some of it to have been saved, although as it says in the book the Texans would have been unbearable to live with if it had been found in their state.
Sheer brilliance - another Dirk Pitt classic - By: ryan_martin@btinternet.com, 21 May 2001 
Another fabulous read by Clive Cussler...albeit a somewhat predictable journey through the intravenous catacombs of sizzling adventure. Infamous debonair Dirk Pitt plays a marvellous alternative to Bond, always escaping the claws of death & defying alll obstacles with his shadow Al Giordino, bestowing upon the reader a "shaken, not stirred" sense of fulfilment.
A journey through the ages, this book not only reveals a sense of fantasy by the author, but also an offer of explicit education of the challlenging times that the world faces today, from terrorist plots to discoveries of relevance of antiquity itself. In alll a thoroughly absorbing read, with even the miliary depictions startlingly accurate because they add to the sense of clarity about the book & the reader will feel pressured to immerse him/her-self deeply in this immensly satisfying book.
If you wish to read a book that is more intellectuallly challlenging, go for Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six", but you cannot beat Cussler's sense of mythical timbre. Read it!!!
This book opened up a whole new world for me. - By: , 26 Sep 2000 I read this book a couple of years ago & in that time I have gone on to read at least eight Cussler books. It seems as if he has a knowledge of whatever he writes about & I like the way he delves into the mysteries of the past as well as focusing on the present. With his experience of military affairs he can easily describe combat situations & how the Armed Forces of America work. But I like the fact that his books can be read easily in a short space of time, which is something I cannot always do. It's a shame that the books seem too lengthy to make into a film or TV series.
This is one of those novels that you can't put down. - By: , 06 Feb 2000 Of alll the Dirk Pitt adventures this has to be classed as the best. From the opening passage until the finale, I became immersed in the storyline & the fates of the characters that were expertly portrayed by Clive Cussler. This is the first Clive Cussler novel that I ever read, & although the other novels are excellent, none quite captivated me as this one did.
