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Cyclops (Dirk Pitt Series #8)

by Clive Cussler
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Overview

A FATAL OCEAN TREASURE HUNT . . .

A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON A SECRET MISSION . . .

AN INTERNATIONAL STANDOFF ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON . . .

When DIRK PITT® intercepts a rogue blimp on a deadly course, authorities find four dead men aboard. None of them, however, is the wealthy American financier who set out aboard the antique airship on an ocean treasure hunt in the Bermuda Triangle. He and his crew have disappeared, and the dead men are discovered to be Soviet cosmonauts. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is informed that a covert group of U.S. industrialists successfully placed a secret colony on the moon nearly three decades previously. Now, a Soviet mission is poised to land on the moon, and what they find there may lead to nuclear war. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba. From the cold ocean depths to a Cuban torture chamber to the CIA headquarters at Langley, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth.

Synopsis

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Richard Nalley

This is a flat-out action book....The notion of a plot engine is taken very literally here; the novel is a kind of ode to conveyances, which include an ore boat, a space shuttle, a Daimler car, a blimp, two kinds of submarines and a bathtub with an outboard motor. -- New York Times

About the Author, Clive Cussler

Author of the wildly popular seafaring adventure series starring man's men Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin , former ace advertising exec Clive Cussler is also a sea searcher in real life and has discovered some of history's most famous shipwrecks.

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Editorials

From the Publisher

Tom Clancy

"Anyone who can put CYCLOPS down has a stronger will than I have. Cussler at his best."

United Press International

"Downright good adventure... A sure winner!"

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."

Richard Nalley

This is a flat-out action book....The notion of a plot engine is taken very literally here; the novel is a kind of ode to conveyances, which include an ore boat, a space shuttle, a Daimler car, a blimp, two kinds of submarines and a bathtub with an outboard motor. -- New York Times

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Written in the bestselling style of Pacific Vortex! and Deep Six, and with the indestructible Dirk Pitt as its hero, this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning financier, and two cunningly devised Soviet schemes, one to steal U.S. space secrets, the other to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet, no matter what the cost in human lives. The nonstop action involves murder and torture as well as superpower politicking, and Pitt extricates himself from one desperate situation after another, even finding time for a little romance. The writing is brittle, but the reader is not likely to worry about that in a story whose plot resembles a box of exploding fireworks and poses some interesting questions regarding both Cuba and the militarization of space. Paperback rights to Pocket Books. February 7

Houston Chronicle

Cyclops is the biggest, most complex and the best of Cussler's Dirk Pitt series.

Book Details

Published
April 1, 2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages
624
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN
9781451621020

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