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COAST
CUSSLER
WITH JACK Du BRUL
Tom Clancy
Clive Cusslers explosive Oregon Files novels have been hailed as honestly fabulous ( Kirkus Reviews ) and action-packed ( Publishers Weekly ). Now, the author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series delivers an explosive Oregon Files novel featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seasJuan Cabrillo
1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds, and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove only to die with their pursuers in a storm that buries them all under tons of sand
Today: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the craftalong with beautiful Sloane Macintyre. Sloane is looking for the now-submerged Rove , and her search has attracted unwantedand lethalattention from unknown forces. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open seaby giant metal snakesin the same area.
What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo to the trial of a far more lethal quarrya deranged enemy whose cadre of followers plans to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them
SACRED STONE
GOLDEN BUDDHA
Ablaze with action.
Kirkus Reviews
Readers will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines.
Publishers Weekly
Fans of Cussler will not be disappointed.
Library Journal
CLIVE CUSSLERS NUMA SERIES
MARVELOUSsimply terrific fun.
Kirkus Reviews
YOU CANT GET MUCH MORE SATISFYING.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
A GREAT STORY.
Tulsa World
WILDLY ENTERTAINING.
New York Daily News
CLIVE CUSSLERS DIRK PITT SERIES
[A] NONSTOP THRILLERCUSSLER SPEEDS AND TWISTS through the complex plot and hairbreadth escapes [with] the intensity and suspense of a NASCAR race.
Publishers Weekly
CLIVE CUSSLERIS AT TOP FORM HERE.
Kirkus Reviews
A DELIGHTFUL PAGE-TURNER that is almost impossible to put down.
The San Francisco Examiner
THE FUNNEST DIRK PITT ADVENTURE SINCE RAISE THE TITANIC !
Rocky Mountain News
Trojan Odyssey
Valhalla Rising
Atlantis Found
Flood Tide
Shock Wave
Inca Gold
Sahara
Dragon
Treasure
Cyclops
Deep Six
Pacific Vortex
Night Probe
Vixen 03
Raise the Titanic !
Iceberg
The Mediterranean Caper
Black Wind
Polar Shift
Lost City
White Death
Fire Ice
Serpent
Blue Gold
Skeleton Coast
Dark Watch
Sacred Stone
Golden Buddha
The Sea Hunters II
The Sea Hunters
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
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PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley trade paperback edition / October 2006
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cussler, Clive.
Skeleton Coast / Clive Cussler, with Jack Du Brul.Berkley trade pbk. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-4295-2763-3
1. Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character)Fiction. 2. Mercenary troopsFiction. 3. Treasure trovesFiction. 4. Skeleton Coast (Namibia)Fiction. I. Du Brul, Jack B.
II. Title.
PS3553.U75S54 2006
813.54dc22 2006020588
KALAHARI DESERT
1896
H E never should have ordered them to leave the guns behind. The decision would cost them all their lives. But had there really been a choice? When the last remaining packhorse went lame theyd had to redistribute its load, and that meant leaving equipment behind. There was no debating the necessity of bringing the water flasks the animal had carried, or the satchels bursting with uncut stones. Theyd had to abandon the tents, bedrolls, thirty pounds of food, and the Martini-Henry rifles each of the five men had carried, as well as all the ammunition. But even with these weight savings the surviving horses were severely overburdened, and with the sun beginning to rise once more to pound the desert no one expected their mounts would last the day.
H. A. Ryder knew better than to agree to lead the others across the Kalahari. He was an old Africa hand, having abandoned a failing farm in Sussex in the heady days of the Kimberley rush hoping to make himself a millionaire in the diamond fields. By the time hed arrived in 1868 the whole of Colesberg Kopje, the hillock where the first diamonds had been discovered, was staked and the fields around it, too, for several miles. So Ryder turned to providing meat for the army of workers.
With a pair of wagons and hundreds of sacks of salt to cure the game, he and a couple of native guides ranged over thousands of square miles. It had been a solitary existence but one that Ryder grew to love, just as he came to love the land, with its haunting sunsets and dense forests, streams so clear the water looked like glass, and horizons so distant they seemed impossible to reach. He learned to speak the languages of various tribes, the Matabele, the Mashona, and the fierce, warlike Herero. He even understood some of the strange clicks and whistles that the Bushmen of the desert used to communicate.
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