Dragon -- Clive Cussler, Paperback

Clive Cussler, author of over twenty consecutive New York Times bestsellers, brings back beloved hero Dirk Pitt in this electrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller that is "a high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a whale of a story" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through.

The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot, Dirk Pitt is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. And Dirk, the dauntless hero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on 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

"Bulging with gadgetry and undersea delights" (Houston Chronicle), Dragon is "pure fun...Watch out for paper cuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep up with Cussler's intense pace" (San Diego Union-Tribune). This is "a page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum...might well envy" (Publishers Weekly).

Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.20h x 3.90w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781982122089

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 20639 / Dragon

About the Author
Clive Cussler (1931-2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT(R), THE NUMA FILES(R), THE OREGON FILES (R), AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE (R), A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE (R), and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE (R). His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, and Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley.