G.P. Putman's Sons, NY
419 PP
ISBN# 0-399-15041-2
Price on jacket: $26.95 (US)
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Released: June 20 2003

From the dust jacket: "For thriller fans everywhere, the electrifying new series from Clive Cussler has been a cause for rejoicing. With the adventures of Kurt Austin, taken from the Numa® Files, "Cussler is in top form," says Publishers Weekly, with "enough derring-do and ecolore to leave his fans breathless."

Hailed as a hero for the new millennium, Austin is the leader of NUMA®'s Special Assignments Team-and the threat before him now is definitely special. A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men, but when the two of them investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work. A shadowy multinational corporation is attempting to wrest control of the very seas themselves-no matter what havoc results, and is killing anyone who attempts to stop them. When Austin's boat blows up and he only barely survives, it seems certain he was supposed to be the next in line to die, but he cannot stop now. For the environmental disaster has already begun, and only he and NUMA® stand in the way. . .

Filled with all the hair-raising action and endless imagination unique to Cussler, White Death is an exceptional thriller from the grand master of adventure fiction."

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