Synopses & Reviews
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.
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!
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Sunday Oklahoman
"Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... Dragon is every bit as thrilling as his earlier Raise the Titanic!
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Sunday Oklahoman
"Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... Dragon is every bit as thrilling as his earlier Raise the Titanic!
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New York Daily News
"Unrelenting... DRAGON is a swell adventure story."
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San Diego Union
"Pure fun.... Cussler's ability to dredge up forgotten facts and link them to imagined future events lends fresh twists to the techno-thriller.... Watch ou for paper cuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep up with Cussler's intense pace."
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Sunday Oklahoman
"Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... Dragon is every bit as thrilling as his earlier Raise the Titanic!
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Cussler is a master of building suspense and tension....
[DRAGON is] high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a
whale of a story...."
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"UNRELENTING . . .
DRAGON IS A SWELL ADVENTURE STORY."
—New York Daily News
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"CUSSLER IS A MASTER OF BUILDING SUSPENSE AND TENSION. . . . HIGH-TECH ADVENTURE, A LITTLE ROMANCE, AND A WHALE OF A STORY."
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Publishers Weekly
"A page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast- paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum ...might well envy.... Solidly entertaining."
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Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Chock-full of marine technology, gentle twistings of historical fact, and enough undersea action to keep readers turning pages. Lovers of undersea adventures who have yet to pick up a Cussler novel should get to know Dirk Pitt."
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Kirkus Reviews
"Cussler keeps a tight plot under a favoring wind. ...Much fun, crisply told, with exciting special effects."
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Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Pitt has been compared to other popular adventure heroes, but Cussler has created a one-of-a-kind... [DRAGON is] an imaginative and suspenseful novel."
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Chattanooga News-Free Press
"From one hair-raising scene to another, Dragon is an incredible and satisfying thriller.... Full of swashbuckling drama and enough twists and turns to keep the reader's attention to the last page....
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Ocala Star-Banner
"Cussler once again bounces to the top of his field by combining current events with an active imagination.... A fine writer.... A spectacular ending."
Synopsis
A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!
A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the Wests secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!
About the Author
Clive Cussler is acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure. He got his start in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation's largest agencies. His initial foray into fiction was in 1973, when he wrote his first Dirk Pitt® novel.
Since then he has continued to write Dirk Pitt® adventures while living a life that nearly parallels that of his action hero. Like Pitt, Cussler enjoys discovering and collecting things of historical significance. With NUMA (National Underwater & Marine Agency, a non profit group begun by Cussler) he has had an amazing record of finding over 60 shipwrecks, one of which was the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. Cussler also has a renowned and extensive classic car collection, which features over 80 examples of custom coachwork.
Along with being Chairman of NUMA, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club (which honored him with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration), the Royal Geographical Society and the American Society of Oceanographers. Married to Barbara Knight for 40 years, with three children and two grandchildren, he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.