By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
A Kurt Austin event In Serpent, his long island instances bestseller, Clive Cussler brought Kurt Austin, a hero for the recent millennium, and "created a brand new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his paintings with a...jolt of power" (The Denver Post). Now Austin and his group slake their thirst for motion as they try and drown an eco-extortionist's plan to manage the world's freshwater provide. BLUE GOLD a unique from the NUMA documents From deep in the Venezuelan rain wooded area emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few think the tribe exists -- or even fewer suspect its deity could carry wisdom which could switch the process historical past. For nationwide Underwater & Marine enterprise team chief Kurt Austin, an research into the surprising deaths of infrequent whales leads him to the Mexican coast, the place anyone attempts to place him and his mini-sub completely out of fee. in the meantime, in South America's lush hills, a in particular assigned NUMA team turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates motive on stealing medicinal secrets and techniques worthy thousands. quickly Austin and his workforce become aware of they are operating the other ends of an identical grand scheme. A billionaire California magnate is poised to upward push to strength by way of monopolizing the earth's greatly depleted freshwater reserves and finally dominate the area. Austin has a droop Venezuela's legendary tribal goddess has a few actual roots in technological know-how, and should be the most important to finding a mystery formulation which could flip great quantities of seawater into clean. yet with each one step into the bush, he and his NUMA group consider like fish out of water -- and needs to struggle a perilous, twisting path of enemies via a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and homicide.
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The boat was built with an interior cage that could resist a herd of overweight elephants. The canopies were more vulnerable. Both Plexiglas covers had been completely ripped off. The cockpits were taking in seas as the boat rocked in the waves. Zavala coughed out a mouthful of seawater. ” he asked, a stunned look on his dark, handsome face. Austin pulled his helmet off to reveal the thick head of platinum, almost white hair. He surveyed the propeller scars on the deck and realized how close they had cut it.
His eyes went to the GPS position and compass. ” Austin checked his watch and looked down at the chart fastened to his right thigh. The one-hundred-sixty-mile race began in San Diego, made two sharp turns around Santa Catalina Island, and came back to the starting point, giving thousands of spectators along the beaches a view of the dramatic finish. The final turn should be coming up any minute. He squinted through the spray-splashed canopy and saw a vertical line off to the right, then another.
Hundreds of spectators excitedly reached for their binoculars and cameras. Boats heeled dangerously as passengers shifted to one side. On the Nepenthe the guests wolfed down their food and poured from the salon sipping from glasses of bubbly. They shaded their eyes and looked off in the distance, where the feathery plumes were thickening into bantam rooster tails. Carried on the breeze was a sound like an angry swarm of bees. In a circling helicopter a thousand feet above the Nepenthe, a sturdy Italian photographer named Carlo Pozzi tapped the pilot's shoulder and pointed to the northwest.