The Pharaoh's Secret - NUMA Files

Zusatztext PRAISE FOR THE NUMA FILES “ Ghost Ship is the closest yet to a flat-out James Bond adventure. Another solid entry in the NUMA Files series.” —Associated Press   “Electrifying . . . Cussler delivers all the usual twists and turns on the way to the explosive climax.” — Publishers Weekly  “Cussler’s latest is the most breathtakingly suspenseful! wildly inventive! enjoyable thriller in the NUMA Files series to date! Hard-core fans will snap it up” --Library Journal “Cussler’s action-packed! fun-filled 11th NUMA Files adventure provides a deserted volcanic-island lair! tricked-out ships! diving exploits! and plenty of thugs and minions to give Kurt Austin a few problems! to say nothing of a beautiful woman scientist”   --Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler and Graham Brown Klappentext When the NUMA crew is exposed to a dangerous toxin, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala will stop at nothing to find a cure foretold by Ancient Egyptian lore in this exhilarting novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Head of NUMA special assignments, Kurt Austin and his most trusted friend, Joe Zavala tangle with a ruthless powerbroker scheming to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of their adversary's plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, discovered in the City of the Dead and rumored to have the power to take life from the living and restore it to the dead.With the balance of power in Africa and Europe on the verge of tipping, Kurt, Joe, and the rest of the NUMA team will have to fight to discover the truth behind the legends-but to do that, they have to confront in person the greatest legend of them all: Osiris, the ruler of the Egyptian underworld.   M.V. Torino, seventy miles west of Malta Present Day    The M.V. Torino was a three hundred foot steel hulled freighter built in 1973.  With her advancing age, small size and slow speed, she was nothing more than a ‘coaster’ now, traveling short routes across the Mediterranean, hitting various small islands on a circuit that took in Libya, Sicily, Malta and Greece.   In the hour before dawn, she was sailing west, seventy miles from her last port of call in Malta and heading for the small Italian controlled island of Lampedusa. Despite the early hour, several men crowded the bridge.  Each of them nervous and with good reason. For the past hour an unmarked vessel running without lights had been shadowing them.   “Are they still closing on us?” The question came as a shout from the ship’s master, Constantine Bracko, a stocky man with pile-driver arms, salt and pepper hair and stubble on his face like coarse sandpaper.  With his hand on the wheel he waited for an answer. “Well?” “The ship is still there,” the first mate shouted.  “Matching our turn. And still gaining.”  “Shut off all our lights,” Bracko ordered.  Another crewman closed a series of master switches and the Torino went dark.  With the ship blacked out, Bracko changed course yet again.  “This won’t do us much good if they have radar or night vision goggles,” the first mate said.  “It’ll buy us some time,” Bracko replied. “Maybe it’s the customs service?” another crewman asked.  “Or the Italian coast guard?” Bracko shook his head.  “We should be so lucky.” The first mate knew what that meant.  “Mafia?” Bracko nodded.  “We should have paid.  We’re smuggling in their waters. They want their cut.” Thinking he could slip by in the dark of night, Bracko had taken a chance.  His roll of the dice had come out badly. “Break out the weapons,” he said. “We have to fight.” “But Constantine…” the first mate ask...

Product details

• Authors: Graham Brown, Clive Cussler, Clive/ Brown Cussler
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780735215252
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-1525-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 193 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Numa Files; The NUMA Files
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature