Blue Gold (Numa Files)
NUMA Files #2Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
ISBN: | 9780684866161 |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
Published: | 16 October, 2000 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Serpent
- 2 Blue Gold
- 3 Fire Ice
- 4 White Death
- 5 Lost City
- 6 Polar Shift
- 7 The Navigator
- 8 Medusa
- 9 Devil's Gate
- 10 The Storm
- 11 Zero Hour
- 12 Mirage
- 12 Ghost Ship
- 13 The Pharaoh's Secret
- 14 Nighthawk
- 15 The Rising Sea
- 16 Sea of Greed
- 17 Journey of the Pharaohs
- 18 Fast Ice
- 19 Dark Vector
- 20 Clive Cussler Condor's Fury
Blue Gold (Numa Files)
NUMA Files #2Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
Reading a Clive Cussler novel is like watching several movies at once. He's a master of the jump cut, moving the action from one continent to another with an entirely different cast of characters, good guys and bad, in each place. He always manages to pull the various characters, plots, and counterplots together, though, and the heroes always triumph in the end after saving the world from eco-terrorists, megalomaniacs with their ambitions primed for world domination, and a few regular old criminals thrown in for good measure. In this new adventure from the National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) files, Kurt Austin and his partner Joe Zavala nearly die during a powerboat race when a pod of dead, bloated gray whales bobs to the surface and obstructs the race course. Attempting to discover what killed the whales, Kurt and Joe track their migratory route to a mysterious underwater laboratory on the Baja Peninsula. Once again they narrowly miss death when the lab explodes, destroying their minisubmarine and almost poaching them alive. What seemed like a simple scientific investigation turns into something very different: a confrontation with a 7-foot Valkyrie who's bent on taking over the earth's depleted freshwater reserves. In order to thwart her plans, Austin and Zavala venture deep into the jungle of the Venezuelan rain forest to find a supposedly mythical tribal goddess (one with a Ph.D. in science, of course) whose secret formula to desalinate seawater can p
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