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050			_aPS3553.U75
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aClive Cussler
245	1		_aFlood Tide
260			_bPocket Books
300			_a560 pages
520			_aThe #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.
521			_a1040
650			_aThriller/Intrigue
650			_aAdventure
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