Shock Wave [Dirk Pitt 13]

✍ Scribed by Cussler, Clive

• Book ID: 107026681
• Publisher: Pocket
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 314 KB
• Series: Dirk Pitt 13
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780743426794

✦ Synopsis

A mysterious plague in the Antarctic...A diamond empire run by an evil genius...A devastating new technology that threatens to annihilate millions!Tasman Sea, 1856. A British clipper ship bound for Australia's penal colony is crushed in a raging typhoon. A few pitiful survivors wash up on a deserted island. Among them are Betsy Fletcher and Jess Dorsett, who discover an immense supply of exquisite diamonds...Seymour Island, Antarctica, 2000. Dirk Pitt rescues Maeve Fletcher, a descendant of Betsy and Jess, after an unknouwn cataclysm kills thousands of marine animals plus nearly two hundred people aboard a cruise ship. Pitt traces the carnage to the global diamond operations of Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her callous sisters. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett's ruthless plans -- before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!