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Zusatztext Praise for Night Probe! and the Dirk Pitt® novels “A rich tale . . . an absorbing! carefully told mystery with plenty of surprises.” — Los Angeles Times “Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau.” —New York Daily News Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of more than fifty previous books in five bestselling series: Dirk Pitt,® NUMA® Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His most recent New York Times bestselling novels are The Bootlegger, Ghost Ship, and The Eye of Heaven . His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, as well as The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II; these 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 Arizona. Klappentext In the midst of an international crisis! Heidi Milligan! a beautiful! brilliant American naval commander! accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty! a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved! economically devastated nation! but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. The original document must be found-and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt. But in London! a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. Brian Shaw! a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents! now confronts his most challenging command. Pitt's mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Shaw's mission: Stop Pitt. Praise for Night Probe! and the Dirk Pitt® novels "A rich tale . . . an absorbing! carefully told mystery with plenty of surprises."-Los Angeles Times "Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau."-New York Daily News MAY 1914 UPSTATE NEW YORK 1 Streaks of lightning signaled a threatening thunderstorm as the Manhattan Limited hurtled over the ballasted rails piercing the New York countryside. Coal smoke burst from the locomotive’s stack in a drumstick plume that dusted the stars stippling the night sky. Inside the cab, the engineer slipped a silver Waltham watch from the pocket of his coveralls, sprung the lid and studied the face in the glow from the firebox. It was not the approaching storm that worried him, but the relentless crawl of time that sought to rob him of his precious schedule. Gazing out the right side of the cab, he watched the creosote ties sweep under the eight huge driving wheels of the 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive. Like the captain of a ship who lived with his command, he had been at the same throttle for three years. He was proud of “Gallopin’ Lena,” as he affectionately called the 236,000 pounds of iron and steel. Built by Alco’s Schenectady Works in 1911, she was burnished in gloss black with a red stripe and her number 88 neatly hand-painted in gold. He listened to the steel wheels pounding out a moving rhythm against the rail joints, felt the momentum of the locomotive and the seven cars that followed. Then he pulled the throttle up another notch. In the seventy-foot private Pullman that brought up the rear, Richard Essex sat at a desk in the vestibuled library. Too tired to sleep and bored with the tedium of the trip, he composed a letter to his wife to pass the time. He described the ornate interior of the car, the elaborately ca...
