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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. With a dozen consecutive New York Times bestsellers and over 70 million copies of his books in print, Clive Cussler is one of America's most popular novelists. His latest book is enthralling, intricately plotted, and supremely suspenseful. "Eigentlich sollte es ein erholsamer Tauchurlaub werden. Doch dann entdeckt Dirk Pit im Orion Lake in der Nähe von Seattle Entsetzliches: Der See birgt Hunderte toter Chinesen. Mit Julia Lee, einer Ermittlerin der US-Regierung, kommt Dirk einem Reeder aus Hongkong auf die Spur, dessen Ware illegale Einwanderer sind. Mit Abertausenden von Menschen, die als Sklavenarbeiter oder Prestituierte eingesetzt werden, Überschwemmt Qin Shang die westliche Welt. Dirk und Julia geraten ins Fadenkreuz der chinesischen Regierung, und als sie schließlich erkennen, was wirklich gespielt werden soll, ist es beinahe schon zu spät"--Page 4 of cover