Arctic Drift

Arctic Drift Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler hardcover 515 pages copyright 2008 ISBN 978-0-399-15529-1 As with all Clive Cussler's dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan amazes, informs and entertains (Publishers Weekly), the action zipping along until a final powerhouse showdown (Entertainment Weekly). What's not to like? proclaimed the Los Angeles Times and hundreds of thousands of readers agreed. In his new novel, however the twentieth Dirk Pitt adventure Cussler may have topped even himself. A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming...a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia...a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war...NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them. Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination .....