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Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme--a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba--and only Dirk Pitt can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth.
A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral pyre. The Presidential yacht cruises the Potomac night-- and the President disappears without a trace. DIRK PITT, the swashbuckling hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Sahara
and Inca Gold, takes on a sinister Asian shipping empire in an intercontinental duel of
nerves. In his most dangerous, fast-paced adventure, he fights to save the U.S.
government-- and to seize one desperate moment of revenge!. With nearly 100 million copies of his bestselling books in print, Clive Cussler
is an extraordinary author whose life parallels that of his fictional hero, DIRK PITT.
Whether searching for famous shipwrecks or cruising in classic cars from his private
collection, Cussler's spirit feeds the soul of DIRK PITT -- a hero whose adventures race
along at supersonic speed. Now with this truly unique insider's guide, you can dive in and
explore the worlds of both Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure, and DIRK PITT,
the world's greatest action adventure hero. Inside Clive Cussler and Dirk PittŪ Revealed you'll find: Complete with rare photos, dedications, the Clive Cussler car collection, and
advanced DIRK PITT trivia, Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed contains a mother
lode of information every fan will treasure. In October of 1993, an uneasy America remains unaware of the lengths to which
some Japanese may be willing to go to ensure Japan's economic dominance. Unaware, that is,
until a nuclear explosion destroys a huge Japanese auto carrier. Dragon describes a
conspiracy designed to force the West into final acceptance of Japan's world leadership. From the moment you begin Clive Cussler's latest undersea thriller, you know
that you're in the hands of a old pro; thus any lingering crotchetiness over the book's
stereotypical villains is offset by deft plotting and taut action. Flood Tide
details the exploits of Dirk Pitt, Special Projects Director of the National Underwater
and Marine Agency, whom Cussler fans already know and love. Judging by this book,
"Special Projects" seems to be a euphemism for blowing stuff up. Pitt's worthy
adversary is Qin Shang, a Chinese shipping tycoon who is definitely from the Fu Manchu
school of management. As part of a nefarious plot to bring the United States to its knees
with a flood of illegal immigrants, Qin Shang operates a secluded gulag in rural
Washington, which the vacationing (ha!) Pitt stumbles upon. A lot of entertaining mayhem
ensues, both on the water and under it. Flood Tide's enthusiastic xenophobia can
stick in the throat, and may get in the way for some. But that flaw aside, it delivers the
speed and shocks necessary. Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice-- the charred remains of a long-missing
luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous. The only clues to the
ships priceless-- and missing-- cargo: nine ornately carved rings and the horribly burned
bodies of its crew. DIRK PITT, intrepid hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Dragon, Sahara,
and Inca Gold, confronts the most lethal network of intrigue and murder in his war against
international crime. Only his strength, skill and daring can thwart a supercharged scheme
that could blow every fuse on earth!. Dirk PittŪ is the world's greatest adventure hero -- a man of action who lives
by his wits and daring. As Special Projects Director for the U.S. National Underwater and
Marine Agency (NUMA), he is cool and courageous, with a love of fast cars and extreme
danger. A death-defying rescue of two drowning scientists plunges Dirk Pitt into a
whirlpool of corruption and betrayal. Sinister criminals have traced a long-lost treasure
-- worth almost a billion dollars -- from the Andes Mountains to a chamber on the banks of
a hidden river that flows beneath a desert. Driven by burning greed, the criminals are
racing to seize a golden prize...and to terminate the one man who can stop them: Dirk
Pitt! Dirk Pitt answers a distress call and rips open a 50-year-old conspiracy. His
adventure begins with Teri, a modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, who is the key to a
vast drug-smuggling ring and who holds back the truth about a Nazi war criminal now ruling
over a corrupt empire. Pitt follows a trial of intrigue into an undersea labyrinth, where
the action explodes as he confronts his nemesis. Dirk Pitt's first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer
and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of
the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without
a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear
arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt's job is to find
it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt's mission
swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer
Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets
his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of
Pacific Vortex! |
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