- Ship captains, Slave trade, Conspiracies, Fiction
The author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series returns with a novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas-Juan Cabrillo.
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- House of Books B.V., The, Brand: Wheeler Publishing, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Dutch, German, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780143058052
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“THE aging Dassault Falcon executive jet drifted smoothly from the sky and touched down at the Sunan International Airfield, twelve miles north of Pyongyang.”
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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