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For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake.
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Earnest, grave, resolved and unpretentious.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, FERNANDO; GARI PUIG
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons c, Penguin Books, PLAZA & JANES
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, tur, German
- ISBN
- 9781429566483
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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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