Synopsis: In Black Wind, in the final days of World War II, a Japanese plan involving deadly biological agents vanished without a trace. Six decades later, Dirk Pitt and his two grown children uncover why it disappeared, and what’s still waiting to be finished.
Some secrets outlive the people who buried them. Near the close of World War II, Japan quietly developed a biological weapons program meant to inflict mass casualties on American soil, a plan that vanished before it could be carried out.
Decades later, Dirk Pitt, now a father watching his own children take up dangerous work, finds himself pulled back into that buried history when the trail of the original program resurfaces and someone appears determined to finish what Japan never managed to start.
This marks a shift in the series, with Pitt’s twin children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, taking on a far larger share of the investigation themselves, a passing of the torch that mirrors the real-life collaboration between Clive Cussler and his son Dirk, co-writing a Dirk Pitt novel together for the first time.
The plot moves between the wartime origins of the program and the present-day race to stop its modern revival, blending the series’ usual historical mystery with a more urgent, ticking-clock threat.
Eighteen books into the series, Black Wind proved the Cussler name could carry into a second generation without losing the scale or pace that built it, setting up Dirk Cussler to continue writing Pitt’s adventures long after this one.
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- Title: Black Wind
- Authors: Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (first collaboration with his son)
- Series: Dirk Pitt Adventures, Book 18
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
- Publication date: November 30, 2004 (First Edition)
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 9780399152597 · ISBN-10: 0399152598
- Pages: 530 pages
- Genre: Adventure thriller / Military suspense
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out of Stock
- Price: KES550
Notable: The first novel Clive Cussler co-wrote with his son, Dirk Cussler, who continued the series afterward.
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