Dragon
Language: English
Action & Adventure Adventure Stories Clive - Prose & Criticism Cussler Dirk (Fictitious character) Espionage Extortion Fiction Fiction - Espionage General Intrigue Nuclear Warfare Pacific Ocean Pitt Terrorism Thriller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: Oct 31, 2006
Description:
SUMMARY: Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West's secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!