Comic-strip specialist Cussler (Raise the Titanic!) returns with as
implausible a tale as he can invent, again featuring death-proof
underwater-recovery mariner Dirk Pitt. An antique blimp carrying
multimillionaire publisher Raymond LeBaron is searching for the US
Navy collier Cyclops, which went down in the Caribbean in 1918,
when the blimp loses radio contact with land and disappears for 10
days. It reappears, manned by dessicated dead men, floating toward
the Sonesta Hotel in Key Biscayne. Pitt, who is enjoying himself
sailboarding, spots the colossus and snags a line from it, just
averting a tragedy. Later, Mrs. LeBaron refuses to identify one of
the dead, who is wearing her husband's clothes and jewelry, as
LeBaron. As it happens, the three substitute corpses are Soviet
cosmonauts whose bodies had been recovered and frozen a year ago.
By whom? Meanwhile, the President is buttonholed by a caddy on a
golf course who pretends to be carrying a bomb and reveals a
fantastic private enterprise scheme which placed a US team on the
moon six years ago and is now about to return its men to earth and
go public. But the Russians are also establishing their own team on
the moon! What is the connection between Cyclops and the moon
colony? Only that LeBaron is among the rich founders of the colony,
and had hoped to recover from the collier a secret treasure: a
six-foot solid gold goddess with a 30-pound emerald for a head and
giant ruby in her breast, stolen from a wealthy native tribe. But
when Pitt locates and boards the sunken ship, the statue is
missing. Also, the Russians have a ship loaded to the gills with
explosive ammonium nitrate in Havana harbor and plan to blow up
Havana and Castro in a tremendous fireball. Castro now wishes to
establish peace with Washington. Can Pitt save Havana? As a matter
of fact, he doesn't altogether and is himself caught up in the
fireball. But he's immortal, right? Nicely paced junk, expertly set
in motion for ultraescapists who like hollow noises between their
ears. (Kirkus Reviews)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail The
suspenseful eighth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king
of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. Dirk Pitt doesn't go looking
for adventure: it finds him easily enough. His chance witnessing of
an airship disaster - which nearly kills him - and subsequent
discovery of the gruesome fate of the crew sets in motion the most
nail-biting chain of events of his career. The hijacking on a golf
course of one of the world's most powerful leaders; an exotic but
outrageous undercover operation in the Caribbean; the sinister
intrigue of a secret power base on the moon . . . Pitt's
considerable resources and guile are about to be tested to the
limit. But when he finds a trail leading towards a fabulous
treasure hidden fathoms deep in the ocean, Pitt realises he is on
to something very special indeed. For somewhere in the raging
waters lies the legendary lost lady of El Dorado, the golden prize
that had already lured thousands to their graves . . . 'Clive
Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Daily
Express
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