Product Details
Pocket, October 2006
Mass Market Paperback, 608 pages
ISBN-10: 1416537805
ISBN-13: 9781416537809
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Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.
The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West's secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!
New York Daily News
"Unrelenting... DRAGON is a swell adventure story."
"Unrelenting... DRAGON is a swell adventure story."
San Diego Union
"Pure fun.... Cussler's ability to dredge up forgottenfacts and link them to imagined future events lends freshtwists to the techno-thriller.... Watch ou for papercuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep upwith Cussler's intense pace."
"Pure fun.... Cussler's ability to dredge up forgottenfacts and link them to imagined future events lends freshtwists to the techno-thriller.... Watch ou for papercuts as you turn the pages faster and faster to keep upwith Cussler's intense pace."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Cussler is a master of building suspense and tension.... [DRAGON is] high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a whale of a story...."
"Cussler is a master of building suspense and tension.... [DRAGON is] high-tech adventure, a little romance, and a whale of a story...."
Publishers Weekly
"A page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum...might well envy.... Solidly entertaining."
"A page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum...might well envy.... Solidly entertaining."
Sunday Oklahoman
"Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... Dragon is every bit as thrilling as his earlier Raise the Titanic!
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Chock-full of marine technology, gentle twistingsof historical fact, and enough undersea action tokeep readers turning pages. Lovers of underseaadventures who have yet to pick up a Cussler novelshould get to know Dirk Pitt."
"Chock-full of marine technology, gentle twistingsof historical fact, and enough undersea action tokeep readers turning pages. Lovers of underseaadventures who have yet to pick up a Cussler novelshould get to know Dirk Pitt."
Kirkus Reviews
"Cussler keeps a tight plot under a favoring wind....Much fun, crisply told, with exciting specialeffects."
"Cussler keeps a tight plot under a favoring wind....Much fun, crisply told, with exciting specialeffects."
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Pitt has been compared to other popular adventureheroes, but Cussler has created a one-of-a-kind...[DRAGON is] an imaginative and suspensefulnovel."
"Pitt has been compared to other popular adventureheroes, but Cussler has created a one-of-a-kind...[DRAGON is] an imaginative and suspensefulnovel."
Chattanooga News-Free Press
"From one hair-raising scene to another, Dragonis an incredible and satisfying thriller.... Full ofswashbuckling drama and enough twists and turnsto keep the reader's attention to the last page....
Ocala Star-Banner
"Cussler once again bounces to the top of his fieldby combining current events with an active imagination.... A fine writer.... A spectacular ending."
"Cussler once again bounces to the top of his fieldby combining current events with an active imagination.... A fine writer.... A spectacular ending."
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
"The master storyteller of undersea adventures...has provided a superb story.... Thrill-per-pagemomentum... [an] incredible finale."
"The master storyteller of undersea adventures...has provided a superb story.... Thrill-per-pagemomentum... [an] incredible finale."
Marshall Independent, October 4, 2009
...list was written by Swedish author Stieg Larson. Larson's 'Millennium' books, which includes 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' became popular after his death in 2004. Verdeck said 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' is also in demand at ...
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