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Hailed as a hero for the new millennium, NUMA leader Kurt Austin must protect the seas’ delicate ecosystem from a fish-farming organization with big plans for their genetically-modified product in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- GRASSET ET FASQUELLE, Penguin Books, Limited, Livre de Poche
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Spanish, tur, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780140297379
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“THE LONE SHIP bearing down on the Faroe Islands looked like the loser in a paintball fight.”
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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