Dragon - clive cussler

This classic adventure by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler finds Dirk Pitt going up against a band of Japanese fanatics who have developed a chilling plan to destroy the Western powers as payback for past injustices.

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Clive Cussler, author of over twenty consecutive New York Times bestsellers, brings back beloved hero Dirk Pitt in this electrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller that is a high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a whale of a story ( Richmond Times-Dispatch ).

Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs.

Only one gets through.

The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel.

Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers.

From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot, Dirk Pitt is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack.

While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center.

And Dirk, the dauntless hero of Sahara and Inca Gold , is taking on death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors.

Pitt alone controls the Wests secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor Bulging with gadgetry and undersea delights ( Houston Chronicle ), Dragon is pure fun.

Watch out for paper cuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep up with Cusslers intense pace ( San Diego Union-Tribune ).

This is a page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum.

might well envy ( Publishers Weekly ).