Dragon -- Clive Cussler

<b>Clive Cussler, author of over twenty consecutive <i>New York Times </i>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" (<i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i>).</b> <p/>Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. <p/>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 <i>Sahara</i> and <i>Inca Gold</i>, 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 <p/>"Bulging with gadgetry and undersea delights" (<i>Houston Chronicle</i>), <i>Dragon</i> is "pure fun...Watch out for paper cuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep up with Cussler's intense pace" (<i>San Diego Union-Tribune</i>). This is "a page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do th