Devil's gate / Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.
Material type: TextPublication details: London [etc.] : Joseph, 2011.Description: 474 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780718156466 (pbk.)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Thurles Library Fiction Collection | 813.54 CUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30026000065036 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames.
A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes.
What is happening in that part of the world?
As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of NUMA's Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.
Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
Teamleider Kurt Austin van NUMA moet zien te voorkomen dat een Afrikaanse alleenheerser het behulp van een geheim wapen zijn wil oplegt aan de gehele wereld.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Clive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois on July 15, 1931. He attended Pasadena City College for two years before enlisting in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. After his discharge from the military, he worked first as a copywriter and later as a creative director for two of the nation's most successful advertising agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards, including one at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.He began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was published in 1996. He has written over 50 books including the Dirk Pitt series, the NUMA Files series, Oregon Files series, Isaac Bell series, and the Fargo Adventure series.
He is the Chairman of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency), a non-profit group which he founded. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered over 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites.
Clive Cussler died on February 24, 2020 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography)