- Research, Kurt Austin (Fictitious character), Viruses, Adventure fiction
For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA® Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA® team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 518
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., Penguin USA, Inc., Widnsor
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, heb, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780399155659
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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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