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Zusatztext “Nobody does it better…NOBODY!”—Stephen Coonts “Cussler delivers all the usual twists and turns on the way to an explosive climax.”— Publishers Weekly "When the going gets tough! I read Clive Cussler! for no one can spin a yarn that's so thoroughly spellbinding and entertaining as he can."—Harold Coyle Informationen zum Autor CLIVE CUSSLER is the author or coauthor of more than fifty previous books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt®, NUMA® Files, Oregon® Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His most recent New York Times bestselling novels are The Bootlegger , The Mayan Secrets , and Zero Hour . His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt , plus The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II ; the latter two describe the true adventures of the real NUMA®, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler has discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley . He lives in Colorado. GRAHAM BROWN is the author of Black Rain and The Eden Prophecy . A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona. Klappentext When NUMA team leader Kurt Austin finds his own memories of a dangerous mission aren't to be trusted, he must follow a trail of mysterious disppearances to the truth in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. After a narrow escape during a perilous rescue operation to save the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, Marine adventurer Kurt Austin awakens with fragmented and conflicting memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined to know the fate of his friend, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking. With the help of fellow NUMA operative Joe Zavala, he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up even he could not begin to guess. Durban, South Africa, July 25, 1909 They were driving into a void, or so it seemed to Chief Inspector Robert Swan of the Durban Police Department. On a moonless night, beneath a sky as dark as India ink, Swan rode shotgun in the cab of a motortruck as it rumbled down a dusty track in the countryside north of Durban. The headlights of the big Packard cast yellow beams of light that flickered and bounced and did little to brighten the path ahead. As he stared into the gloom, Swan could see no more than forty yards of the rutted path at any one time. “How far to this farmhouse?” he asked, turning toward a thin, wiry man named Morris, who was wedged in next to the driver. Morris checked his watch, leaned toward the driver, and checked the odometer of the truck. After some mental calculations, he glanced down at the map he held. “We should be there soon, Inspector. No more than ten minutes to go, I’d say.” The chief inspector nodded and grabbed the doorsill as the bumpy ride continued. The Packard was known as a Three Ton, the latest from America and one of the first motor vehicles to be owned by the Durban Police Department. It had come off the boat with the customized cab and windshield. Enterprising workmen from the newly formed motor pool had built a frame to cover the flat bed and stretched canvas over it, though no one had done anything to make it more comfortable. As the truck bounced and lurched over the rutted buggy trail, S...
