Synopses & Reviews
An explosive NUMA® adventure featuring hero Kurt Austin from
New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler...
When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown? Or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard?
Determined to know the truth, he soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking.
With the help of Joe Zavala, he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up even he could not begin to guessexcept maybe in death
Review
“Just about the best storyteller in the business.” —
New York Post “Nobody does it better…nobody!” —Stephen Coonts
CLIVE CUSSLER…
“…has no equal.” —Publishers Weekly
ZERO HOUR is…
“A nonstop action thriller.” —The Associated Press
Review
“Nobody does it better…NOBODY!”—Stephen Coonts
“Cussler delivers all the usual twists and turns on the way to an explosive climax.”—Publishers Weekly
"When the going gets tough, I read Clive Cussler, for no one can spin a yarn that's so thoroughly spellbinding and entertaining as he can."—Harold Coyle
Synopsis
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew must stop a vengeful scientist from using what could be a resource for good to tear apart the very surface of the earth in this fast-paced installment in the #1New York Times-bestselling series.
It is called zero-point energy contained in all matter, it would become an unlimited resource for anyone able to tap into it. But so far, no one has. And even if they could, would they be able to contain it? Kurt Austin and his NUMA Special Assignments team are about to find out.
Kurt Austin is attending a symposium in Sydney, Australia, when he meets a stunning theoretical physicist named Hayley Anderson at the Opera House steps. The pair are interrupted by a boat chase raging across the harbor. But when Austin rushes to the scene, he s intercepted by the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
Asked to step aside, Austin isn t quite ready to let go of the chase, especially when he learns that Ms. Anderson is somehow connected. Disappearing documents and sudden, unexplained earthquakes suggest she may be in trouble. And the clues point to a scientist who may have achieved in the impossible, the construction of a zero-point energy machine."
Synopsis
The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the grand master of adventure
It is called zero-point energy, and it really existsa state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it
until one scientist succeeds. Unfortunately, his intentions are far from noble.
The scientist is determined to avenge himself upon those who have scorned and vilified him, and constructs machines that will use the zero-point energy to unleash an apocalypse of earthquakes and cracks in the Earths tectonic plates.
With disaster drawing closer, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team race to find the machines before theyre activated. For if they fail, the world will literally be torn apart
About the Author
CLIVE CUSSLER is the author or coauthor of more than fifty previous books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt®, NUMA® Files, Oregon® Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His most recent
New York Times bestselling novels are
The Mayan Secrets,
Zero Hour, and
Mirage. His nonfiction works include
Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, plus
The Sea Hunters and
The Sea Hunters II; the latter two 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 has discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. He lives in Colorado.
GRAHAM BROWN is the author of Black Rain and The Eden Prophecy. A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona.