Synopsis: In Flood Tide, a smuggler who treats human lives as cargo is Dirk Pitt’s next target, and the trail runs from a Chinese port straight into the swamps of Louisiana, where a sunken WWII treasure ship may be the key to shutting him down for good.
Dirk Pitt is after a Chinese smuggler who makes his fortune moving illegal immigrants into countries around the world, treating the people in his cargo holds as nothing more than freight. When the trail leads to a remote port in Louisiana, Pitt finds himself far from his usual open-water territory, navigating the bayous and backwaters of the Mississippi instead.
What starts as an immigration case turns into something else once Pitt learns about a treasure ship that went down at the start of World War II, and that the smuggler’s operation may be tangled up in finding it first.
Cussler splits the action between two very different worlds, the brutal mechanics of a human trafficking operation and the old-fashioned thrill of a sunken-treasure hunt, forcing Pitt to work both angles before his adversary can finish either one. It’s a format the series has leaned on for years, pairing a villain operating in the present with a mystery buried in the past, and letting Pitt’s resourcefulness bridge the two.
Fourteen books into the Dirk Pitt series, Cussler shows no sign of running out of new terrain to send his hero into, swapping the usual deep-sea setting for Louisiana’s swamps without losing any of the pace or scale that built the franchise’s following.
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- Title: Flood Tide
- Author: Clive Cussler
- Series: Dirk Pitt Adventures, Book 14
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication date: September 25, 1997 (First Edition)
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 9780684802985 · ISBN-10: 0684802988
- Pages: 511 pages
- Genre: Adventure thriller / Nautical fiction
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out of Stock
- Price: KES650
Notable: Had a 750,000-copy first printing…
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