Blåt guld af Clive Cussler (Bog)

Planet Earth is a paradox - a lush, fertile world three-quarters-covered by water, yet in danger of running dry. Fresh water is disappearing from overuse and pollution and the only hope lies in desalination, a process to convert salt water into fresh. Francesca Carval is a brilliant scientist whose newest discovery will save the human race. She has perfected the process of desalination, and is flying to a conference in Rio to announce it to the world. Then a group of terrorists attempts to hijack her plane which crashes in the Venezuelan jungle. Francesca is taken in and protected by a native tribe: she is not heard from again. Ten years later, Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across the mysterious death of a pod of grey whales off the coast of California. The path leads Austin to the heart of South America where he discovers Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle, living among t

Et dansk krydserskib synker efter en konfrontation med yderligtgående miljøforkæmpere og Kurt Austin og hans kollega får til opgave at redde besætningen, men de opdager snart at der ikke er tale om et enkeltstående tilfælde Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 508 Sprog: Engelsk

A Novel from the NUMA Files When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction. Udgivelsesår: 1999 Sider: 474 Sprog: Engelsk

Paperback udgave af 'Night Probe!', en thriller af Clive Cussler. Bogen viser tydelige tegn på brug med slid på kanterne og nogle mærker på omslaget. Forfatter: Clive Cussler

A Novel from the NUMA Files A life prolonging enzyme has been discovered deep in the North Atlantic, in an area known as 'Lost City'. Harvesting the enzyme has lead to dead bodies. More bodies appear in the Alps and on a remote Greek island. Kurt Austin and his NUMA team must find the connection fast! Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 401 Sprog: Engelsk

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail The gripping Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos. It's left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker's yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip . . . 'Clive Cussler is th

A Novel from the NUMA Files The hero of SERPENT and BLUE GOLD confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure.Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian goverment - and US opposition doesn't bother him one bit. Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2002 Sider: 434 Sprog: Engelsk