Final Option - Oregon Files

Zusatztext "An all-out nonstop action thriller. . . Boyd Morrison has taken this Clive Cussler series to new heights! and Final Option is the best one yet. The story hits the gas pedal and never taps the brakes.” --Associated Press "Startling. . . The intense! riveting climax takes the  Oregon  where the ship has never been before. Series fans won’t want to miss this one.” -- Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison Klappentext Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending in the latest action-packed thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler. When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents. What seems a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by Juan Cabrillo's greatest enemy, a man driven by hate to seek the ultimate revenge. At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture. The only thing it doesn't have is Cabrillo and his talented crew. But will they be enough to go up against the one ship that rivals their own? The crew of the Oregon must piece together a series of disturbing events, including the mysterious sinking of a nuclear attack submarine and the possible discovery of a WWII-era weapon that was thought to be lost in the jungles of Brazil, in the ultimate game of cat and mouse.1 The Atlantic Ocean Present Day Jack Perry stared in amazement at the approaching cargo ship. He wondered not only how it had made the voyage thousands of miles from South Africa, but also how it stayed afloat in the first place. With the afternoon sun behind him, Perry had a good view of the decrepit vessel. The peeling hull was painted in so many different hideous shades of green that it looked like a collage of rotting avocados. Gaps in the deck railing were patched together by rusty chains, and the five cranes were so dilapidated that they seemed capable of collapsing at any moment. The bridge windows on the dingy white superstructure set two-thirds of the way toward the stern were so caked with dust that Perry couldn't see the crew inside. He shook his head in disgust at the ancient steamer called the Portland. Why his employers back in Virginia would trust such an important operation to this rickety ship was far above his pay grade. When he had the freight safely transferred over to his own container carrier, he'd breathe much easier. The Mant’cora wasn't a fancy ship by any means, but she had to be fifty years newer than the Portland. The bridge where Perry was standing was set near the bow, and she was smaller. Designed as a containership for smaller ports, the Mant’cora had two recently overhauled cranes. Perry turned to the captain and said in Spanish, "Make sure we lift the containers aboard using our cranes, not theirs." "S’, se–or," the captain replied as he eyed the Portland with contempt. "I wouldn't trust those cranes to carry a feather pillow." "How long will the transfer take?" The captain looked at the bridge clock, which read 14:17. "Once you complete the transaction with the Portland's captain, it shouldn't take more than an hour to haul four containers over and secure them." "And when will we arrive in Nicaragua?" "There's no significant weather expected along the route to slow us down, so less than a week." "Good. Then let's get this over with." Perry left the bridge and climbed a rope ladder down to the lifeboat that had been lowered into the water. The Portland was now stationary two hundred yards off the starboard bow of the Mant’cora. Perry couldn't be sure, but h...

Product details

• Authors: Cliv Cussler, Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780525541837
• ISBN: 978-0-525-54183-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 191 mm x 26 mm
• Series: The Oregon Files; Oregon Files (Englisch)
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense