Serpent : A Novel from the NUMA Files (Numa Files Series)
by Cussler, Clive
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- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671026682
- ISBN 13
- 9780671026684
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Pocket, 2000. Near Fine. After more than a quarter century of chronicling the aquatic adventures of action hero Dirt Pitt, Cussler (Flood Tide; Shock Wave) has finally decided to cast his line in somewhat different waters. Co-written by veteran myste ry author Paul Kemprecos (Bluefin Blues; The Mayflower Murder), this novel still features the sturdy men and women of the National Underwater Marine A gency, plenty of hair-raising derring-do and a convivial cast of characters engaged in an outlandishly hatched thrill ride. The stars of this show are NUMA divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, two young bucks without the season ing and panache of Pitt but worthy successors, nonetheless. They are trying to find out why top archeologists are being killed, some of them butchered , at dig sites. The archeologists have apparently stumbled across artifacts proving, contrary to established historical thought, that Christopher Colu mbus wasn't the first Old World explorer to set foot in the New World. The killings can be traced to a mysterious organization in Texas called Time Qu est, whose stated mission is to provide volunteers for digs. Its real inten tion, however, is much darker: to prevent anyone from learning that Spain w as not the first on the scene in the New World and that the culture it clai med to discover had, in fact, been imported from other corners of the globe . Ultimately, Time Quest's leader, the evil Francisco Halcon, wants to fome nt revolution in the Western U.S. and reclaim it as Latin-American territor y. The showdown between Halcon and NUMA's forces plays out in typical Cussl er furyAfirst on the decks of the sunken passenger liner Andrea Doria in th.
Synopsis
INTRODUCING KURT AUSTIN From the classic novel Raise the Titanic! to his latest blockbuster Flood Tide, Clive Cussler and his fictional alter ego Dirk Pitt® have earned legions of fans worldwide. Now, the author of fifteen consecutive bestsellers unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new series of unrelenting action and edge-of-your-seat thrills. On the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket lies the battered remains of the Italian luxury liner, Andrea Doria. But few know that within its bowels rests a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity -- a treasure that now holds the key to a puzzle that is costing people their lives. For Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA) exploration team, the killing begins when he makes a daring rescue of a beautiful marine archaeologist. The target of a powerful Texas industrialist named Halcon, Nina Kirov was attacked off the coast of Morocco after her discovery of a carved stone head that may prove Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover America. Soon Kurt and Nina embark on a deadly mission to uncover Halcon's masterful plan -- an insidious scheme that would have him carve out a new nation from the southwest United States and Mexico, and ride to power on a wave of death and destruction. With Austin's elite NUMA crew attacking the murderous conspiracy from different sides, an extraordinary truth emerges: that Columbus may have made a fifth, unknown voyage to America in search of a magnificent treasure. And that the silent, steel hull of the Andrea Doria not only holds the answer to what the explorer may have found -- but the fate of the United States itself.
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- Infinity Books Japan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000451
- Title
- Serpent : A Novel from the NUMA Files (Numa Files Series)
- Author
- Cussler, Clive
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671026682
- ISBN 13
- 9780671026684
- Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2000
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