Dragon - Softcover

Cussler, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451606516 ISBN 13: 9781451606515

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2011

Synopsis

A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!

A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the West’s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!

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Review:

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel"Pitt has been compared to other popular adventureheroes, but Cussler has created a one-of-a-kind...[DRAGON is] an imaginative and suspensefulnovel." Publishers Weekly"A page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum...might well envy.... Solidly entertaining." San Diego Union"Pure fun.... Cussler's ability to dredge up forgottenfacts and link them to imagined future events lends freshtwists to the techno-thriller.... Watch ou for papercuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep upwith Cussler's intense pace." Atlanta Journal and Constitution"Chock-full of marine technology, gentle twistingsof historical fact, and enough undersea action tokeep readers turning pages. Lovers of underseaadventures who have yet to pick up a Cussler novelshould get to know Dirk Pitt." Sunday Oklahoman "Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... "Dragon" is every bit as thrilling as his earlier "Raise the Titanic"! Chattanooga News-Free Press"From one hair-raising scene to another, "Dragon"is an incredible and satisfying thriller.... Full ofswashbuckling drama and enough twists and turnsto keep the reader's attention to the last page.... Ocala Star-Banner"Cussler once again bounces to the top of his fieldby combining current events with an active imagination.... A fine writer.... A spectacular ending." Richmond Times-Dispatch"Cussler is a master of building suspense and tension.... �DRAGON is� high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a whale of a story...." Kirkus Reviews"Cussler keeps a tight plot under a favoring wind....Much fun, crisply told, with exciting specialeffects." New York Daily News"Unrelenting... DRAGON is a swell adventure story."

From the Back Cover:

'THE POWER TO BLOW UP ANY CITY IN THE WORLD IN TIME FOR THE SIX O'CLOCK NEWS...'

That is the threat posed by the Kaiten Project, master-minded by Hideki Suma, a sinister Japanese industrialist with a stockpile of atomic weapons and an army of robots at his command. But he has not reckoned on the courage and resource of troubleshooter Dirk Pitt, whose underwater skills are put to the test as never before and emerge triumphant.

Another gripping tale from Clive Cussler, the master of action-packed suspense.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451606516
• ISBN 13: 9781451606515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608