Crescent Dawn

(Bog, paperback)
- Dirk Pitt #21

Beskrivelser af Crescent Dawn

Forlagets beskrivelse

Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts.

Bibliotekernes beskrivelse

Dirk Pitt must fight another perilous battle in Clive Cussler's "Atlantis Found". An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences...Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts. Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans succeeding...Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, "Crescent Dawn" is a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue. "Crescent Dawn" is the twenty-first of Clive Cussler's bestselling "Dirk Pitt" novels - the series that also includes "Inca Gold" and, his first novel, "Mayday" - co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler, in which hero Dirk Pitt finds himself caught between artefacts and fanatics. Praise for Clive Cussler: "No holds barred adventure ...a souped-up treat". ("Daily Mirror"). "Frightening and full of suspense ...unquestionably entertaining". ("Daily Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has thrilled readers for four decades with his classic adventure novels filled with intrigue and plot twists. As well as the "Dirk Pitt" series there are also the "NUMA" and "Oregon Files", the "Isaac Bell" adventures and the "Fargo" series. Other "Dirk Pitt" titles available in Penguin paperback are "Atlantis Found", "Valhalla Rising", "Trojan Odyssey", "Black Wind", "Treasure of Khan", "Arctic Shift" and "The Kingdom".