TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clive Cussler
TI  - Flood Tide
SN  - 9780671000318
AV  - PS3553.U75 
U1  - 813.54 
PB  - Pocket Books
KW  - Thriller/Intrigue
KW  - Adventure
N1  - 1040
N2  - The #1New York Timesbestseller!An underwater graveyard in the Pacific Northwest... A mysterious seaport in the bayous of Louisiana... A diabolical plot to destroy America!Unknown waters, 1948.ThePrincess Dou Wan,a sea-weary cruise ship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-shek, slams into a devastating storm that tears the hull apart and sends it and a mysterious cargo down into the depths, lost to all searchers for more than fifty years.Pacific Northwest, 2000.Dirk Pittʼ rescues a beautiful undercover immigration agent from Qin Shang, an insatiably greedy smuggler whose vast fortune is made selling Chinese immigrants into slavery around the globe. Shang's campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S.politicians, but Pitt finds the secret behind Shang's vast and mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayou to be shockingly sinister. From an adrenaline-pumped race against time and tide up the Mississippi River to a desperate dash to recover Chinese treasures, Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction
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