- Marine engineers, Open Library Staff Picks, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Biological warfare
Legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt must work with his children to unravel old battle plans from WWII to prevent a present-day massacre in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 530
- Publisher
- penguin, Berkley, Books On Tape
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- tur, Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9781594131172
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“LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Takeo Ogawa glanced at his wristwatch and shook his head in irritation.”
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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