Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters,
Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt" - in a
masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River
that can only enhance his status as the grand master of adventure fiction. The
coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is
Dirk Pitt's adversary in Flood Tide is human lives: much of his vast fortune has
been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe,
including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's activities leads Pitt from
Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping
port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The
trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the
ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949,
including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had
vanished at the beginning of World War 1. As Pitt prepares for a final showdown,
he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered.
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