Sea of greed

✍ Scribed by Austin, Kurt;Brown, Graham;Cussler, Clive

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 303 KB
• Series: NUMA Files 16
• Category: Fiction
• City: Gulf Coast (U.S.), United States--Gulf Coast
• ISBN: 0735219036

✦ Synopsis

The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time?Sea of Greed is the suspenseful new NUMA Files novels from the #1 New York Times -bestselling grand master of adventure.
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental hero...or a rogue genetic engineer?

The NUMA crew discovers that the oil fields are infected with a bacteria that is consuming the oil before it can be pumped out of the earth--a bacteria originally lost...

✦ Subjects

United States -- Gulf Coast