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* ''[[Dirk Pitt]]'' -- 21 books have been published so far.
** ''[[The Mediterranean Caper]]'' (1973)
** ''[[Iceberg (Dirk Pitt novel)|Iceberg]]'' (1975)
** ''[[Raise the Titanic!]]'' (1976)
** ''[[Vixen 03]]'' (1978)
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Giordino, but also Pitt, Gunn, and Sandecker
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: In {{spoiler|''Inca Gold'' and ''Atlantis Found''}}. (Possibly others.)
* [[Deconstructed Trope]]: When Dirk wakes up in a hospital in ''Iceberg'', Sandecker's secretary, Tidi Royal, starts hitting on him. He shuts her down. She protests he doesn't even know she exists, whereupon he reels off her vital statistics--including the location of a mole--and informs her he will ''never'' "play games" that close to the Admiral. At the end of the book, Tidi has hooked up with a secondary character, and is never seen again. This explains why [[James Bond]] only [[UST|flirts]] with Moneypenny.
* [[Defictionalization]]: As alluded to above, [http://www.numa.net/ the NUMA organization] has existed in [[Real Life]] since 1979.
* [[Disney Death]]: Pitt and many other supporting characters
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** Technically, he only had to buy one of the airplanes, and most of the non-car portions of his collection (and some of the car portion) were picked up and/or gifted to him throughout his adventures. Still, the point does stand, since his antique car collection is enormous regardless (it actually parallels the real-life collection owned by Cussler, who used his book sales profits to assemble the collection).
** If memory serves, he had received a notable inheritance from either a beloved uncle or grandfather which he uses to buy classic cars at auction. I think it was in the beginning of ''Dragon.''
 
== Tropes found in Inca Gold ==
 
 
== Tropes found in Sahara ==
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: One of the subplots, {{spoiler|involving the Confederacy's kidnapping of Abraham Lincoln.}}
 
 
== Tropes found in Iceberg ==
* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: Pitt describes a steak to Kirsti, who has spent most of her life in New Guinea, as being wrapped in echidna seaweed. For those of us unfamiliar with the animal-who who haven't played ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' recently--he explains to his friend after Kirsti leaves that an echidna is a type of spiny anteater native to New Guinea. He just said he'd eat the equivalent of a "New York steak wrapped in porcupine quills".
* [[Values Dissonance]]: One subplot of ''Iceberg'' involves Pitt pretending to be [[Camp Gay]] to get a potential enemy to underestimate him. Sandecker even asks him why he's acting like a "faggot". Incidentally, {{spoiler|the foe in question is a homophobe, and when Pitt reveals the truth, it's in the middle of beating five types of crap out of him. Also, he seems to have no problem with Kristjan becoming Kirsti, and is more concerned with the fact that she seems to have become a sociopath.}}
 
 
== Tropes found in The Mediterranean Caper ==
* [[Romancing the Widow]]: Teri von Till in ''The Mediterranean Caper''.
 
 
== Tropes found in Pacific Vortex ==
* [[Prequel]]: ''Pacific Vortex'' was written first, but released sixth.
 
 
== Tropes found in Vixen 03 ==
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