Plague Ship: Oregon Files #5 (The Oregon Files) - Hardcover

Cussler, Clive; Du Brul, Jack

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9780718153441: Plague Ship: Oregon Files #5 (The Oregon Files)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718153448 ISBN 13: 9780718153441

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2008

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For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment.

Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it – and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet.

The crew has just completed a top-secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner’s sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate – and as perilous – as any he has ever known, and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race...plans he may already be too late to stop.

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The guy I read (Tom Clancy)

Cussler is hard to beat (Daily Mail)

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In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . .

Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a top secret state of the art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk - reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf they encounter a cruise ship full of the dead and the dying. While attempting a rescue, the stricken liner erupts into a fireball. Cabrillo escapes with his life, and one survivor.

When Cabrillo decides to probe deeper into this mystery, he finds a powerful cult obsessed with the end of the world. It is a discovery that sees the Oregon and her crew racing against time to prevent a sinister madman from using the secrets of the past to destroy the future . . .

Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas adventure you won't be able to put down.

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

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