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Crescent Dawn: A Dirk Pitt Adventure

Crescent Dawn: A Dirk Pitt Adventure

by Cussler Clive & Cussler DirkClive Cussler and Dirk Clive; Cussler Cussler
Hardback
Publication Date: 25/10/2010

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Dirk Pitt returns in the extraordinary new novel from the number-one bestselling author Clive Cussler.And now he brings us his greatest adventure of all.A.D. 327, a Roman galley with an extraordinary cargo barely escapes a pirate attack. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. What ties them all together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team are about to find out, as Roman artefacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. From Washington to London, to the treacherous shores of the Near East, dangerous men and desperate acts fill their path, and at the end of it, the most dangerous thing of all: the rumoured existence of a mysterious 'manifest,' lost long ago, which if discovered again . . . just might change the history of the world as we know it. Filled with breathtaking suspense and extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawn is further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler 'Brilliantly researched, the excitement of the chase in this book is equalled by the information provided as background, including insights into the Roman navy and the British General Kitchener in World War I.' Illawarra Mercury Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter
ISBN:
9780718157401
9780718157401
Category:
Thriller / suspense
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
25-10-2010
Publisher:
Penguin UK
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
548
Dimensions (mm):
238x165x52mm
Weight:
0.85kg
Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler is the author of over twenty-five internationally bestselling books, including the Dirk Pitt adventure series, the NUMA FILES novels and the Oregon Files Adventures.

He grew up in Alhambra, California. He later attended Pasadena City College for two years, but then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War where he served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service. Upon his discharge, he became a copywriter and later creative director for two leading ad agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards, one at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Cussler began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. Because of this work the Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May of 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.

Cussler is the founder the National Underwater & Marine Agency, (NUMA), a non-profit organisation that dedicates itself to American maritime and naval history. In addition to being Chairman of NUMA, Cussler is a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London.

A noted collector of classic automobiles, Cussler owns 85 of the finest examples of custom coachwork and 50's convertibles to be found anywhere. They are garaged near Golden, Colorado. Today, Cussler divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.

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