- Politics and government, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Uranium industry, Corrupt practices
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous -- a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Plaza & Janés, Blanvalet Verlag, Michael Joseph
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781408733028
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Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that d
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