Inca Gold: A Dirk Pitt Adventure - Softcover

Cussler, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671020560 ISBN 13: 9780671020569

Publisher: Simon Pulse, 1998

Synopsis

Dirk Pitt® is the world's greatest adventure hero -- a man of action who lives by his wits and daring. As Special Projects Director for the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), he is cool and courageous, with a love of fast cars and extreme danger. A death-defying rescue of two drowning scientists plunges Dirk Pitt into a whirlpool of corruption and betrayal. Sinister criminals have traced a long-lost treasure -- worth almost a billion dollars -- from the Andes Mountains to a chamber on the banks of a hidden river that flows beneath a desert. Driven by burning greed, the criminals are racing to seize a golden prize...and to terminate the one man who can stop them: Dirk Pitt!

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Stephen CoontsNobody does it better than Clive Cussler. "Nobody!" New York "Daily News"GET-TO-THE-NEXT-PAGE EXCITEMENT...Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau... New York "Daily News" GET-TO-THE-NEXT-PAGE EXCITEMENT...Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau... New York Daily News GET-TO-THE-NEXT-PAGE EXCITEMENT...Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau... Stephen Coonts Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler. Nobody! New York "Daily News"GET-TO-THE-NEXT-PAGE EXCITEMENT...Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau...

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Demons. Demons of death, guarding the treasures of the Inca Kings, across the centuries and men of monstruous greed who order death from behind smiling faces...

Dirk Pitt must face both on a journey that begins high in the Peruvian Andes with a perilous dive into the grim waters of a sacrificial well where the Incas flung hundreds to their deaths. It leads them to Pueblo de los Muertos – the City of the Dead – and the legend of an Inca King, Huascar, who possessed a sacred gold chain that needed two hundred men to lift it. A chain that was sent far across the sea to keep it from the Spanish conquerors, to a hiding place guarded by a winged demon, in a river that ran beneath a desert.

And after Pitt, huaqueros – grave robbers. Men like Tupac Amoru, whose tools of trade are torture, rape and death; who takes Congress women Loren Smith hostage for Pitt's life...

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0671020560
• ISBN 13: 9780671020569
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 48