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Leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, Kurt Austin must work with a former KGB spy to save the United States from a lunatic with a generations-spanning grudge in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Plaza y Janes, Penguin Group USA, Inc., Berkley Bbks
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Polish, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780307348197
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“LEROY JENKINS WAS hauling in a barnacle-entrusted lobster trap aboard his boat, The Kestrel, when he looked up and saw the giant ship on the horizon.”
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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