| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780553273908 | | Publisher: Bantam Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30099215 | | Item#: R36QCG | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7H x 4.5L x 1T |
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| | | 1954. "Vixen 03" is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the "Titanic," discovers the wreckage of "Vixen 03," But two deadly canisters are missing. They''re in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.
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Vixen 03 was a government airplane loaded with nuclear weapons which crashed over the Rocky Mountains in 1953. When Dirk Pitt uncovers the wreckage in 1988, two of the deadly cannisters are missing. Can Dirk find the missing nukes before disaster strikes?
| Author Bio| Clive Cussler | | Born in Aurora, Illinois, Cussler grew up mainly in California where he attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force during the Korean War. Serving as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer, Cussler eventually left the service to work in advertising as a copywriter, moving on to become creative director of some of the country's most prestigious agencies. Cussler didn't begin writing novels until he was 34, and it wasn't until eight years later in 1973 that he published a novel featuring Dirk Pitt, the hero he is most famous for creating. Since then, Cussler has gone on to write a long list of best-selling adventure novels, which have been translated into 40 languages and have been sold in over 135 countries. He has served as chairman of the National Underwater & Marine Agency, and as a fellow in the Explorers Club of New York, the Royal Geographic Society in London, and the American Society of Oceanographers. Cussler is married to Barbara Knight, with whom he has had three children. He spends much of his time on his favorite hobby, tending to his sizable collection of rare and classic cars. |
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