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Clive Cussler - Dragon

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A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES! A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITT is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the Wests secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!

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Pitt has been compared to other popular adventure heroes, but Cussler has created a one-of-a-kind [DRAGON is] an imaginative and suspenseful novel.

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

DRAGON

Hideki Suma: The blue-eyed multimillionaire was the most powerful ultranationalist in Japanwith a plan to destroy any nation that dared to thwart the rise of his new empire

Moro Kamatori: The collector of antique weapons also collected human heads on Sumas private island, where he would make his most pleasurable hunt of allfor Dirk Pitt!

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From one hair-raising scene to another, DRAGON is an incredible and satisfying thriller . Full of swashbuckling drama and enough twists and turns to keep the readers attention to the last page This worthy successor to the ongoing Dirk Pitt saga is certain to entertain and engross suspense fans.

Chattanooga NewsFree Press

Cussler once again bounces to the top of his field by combining current events with an active imagination. A fine writer. A spectacular ending.

Ocala Star-Banner

The master storyteller of undersea adventures has provided a superb story Thrill-per-page momentum [an] incredible finale.

Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)

Dirk Pitt Adventures by Clive Cussler

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

By Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo

The Sea Hunters

Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

From the NUMA Files by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos

Serpent

Blue Gold

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POCKET BOOKS a division of Simon Schuster Inc 1230 Avenue of the Americas - photo 2POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.

1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

Copyright 1990 by Clive Cussler Enterprises, Inc.

First Pocket Books printing July 1991

Dennings Demons August 6 1945 Shemya Island Alaska THE DEVIL CLUTCHED a - photo 3

Dennings Demons

August 6, 1945

Shemya Island, Alaska

THE DEVIL CLUTCHED a bomb in his left hand, a pitchfork in his right, and smirked impishly. He might have appeared menacing if it wasnt for the exaggerated eyebrows and the half-moon eyes. They gave him more of a sleepy gremlin look than the fiendish expression expected from the ruler of hell. Yet he wore the customary red suit and sprouted regulation horns and long forked tail. Oddly, the clawlike toenails of his feet were curled over a gold bar that was labeled 24 K.

In black letters above and below the circled figure on the fuselage of the B-29 bomber were the words Dennings Demons.

The aircraft, named for its commander and crew, sat like a forlorn ghost under a sheet of rain driven southward over the Aleutian Islands by a wind from the Bering Sea. A battery of portable lights illuminated the area beneath the open belly of the plane, casting wavering shadows from the ground crew on the glistening aluminum body, Flashes of lightning added to the haunting scene, stabbing the darkness of the airfield with disturbing frequency.

Major Charles Dennings leaned against one of the twin tires of the starboard landing gear, hands shoved deep into the pockets of his leather flight jacket, and observed the activity around his aircraft. The entire area was patrolled by armed MPs and K-9 sentries. A small camera crew recorded the event. He watched with uneasy trepidation as the obese bomb was delicately winched into the modified bomb bay of the B-29. It was too large for the bombers ground clearance and had to be hoisted out of a pit.

During his two years as one of the top bomber pilots in Europe, with over forty missions to his credit, he had never laid eyes on such a monstrosity. He saw it as a gigantic overinflated football with nonsensical boxed fins on one end. The round ballistic casing was painted a light gray, and the clamps that held it together around the middle looked like a huge zipper.

Dennings felt menaced by the thing he was to carry nearly three thousand miles. The Los Alamos scientists who assembled the bomb at the airstrip had briefed Dennings and his crew the previous afternoon. A motion picture of the Trinity test explosion was shown to the young men, who sat stunned in disbelief as they viewed the awesome detonation of a single weapon with the power to crush an entire city.

He stood there another half hour until the bomb-bay doors were swung closed. The atom bomb was armed and secure, the plane was fueled and ready for takeoff.

Dennings loved his aircraft. In the air he and the big complex machine became as one. He was the brain, it was the body, a unity he could never describe. On the ground it was another story. Exposed by the shining lights and beaten by the rain that became sleet-cold, he saw the beautiful ghostlike silver bomber as his crypt.

He shook off the morbid thought and hurried through the rain to a Quonset but for his crews final briefing. He entered and sat down next to Captain Irv Stanton, the bombardier, a jolly round-faced man with a great walrus mustache.

On the other side of Stanton, his feet stretched out in front of him, slouched Captain Mort Stromp, Dennings co-pilot, a complacent southerner, who moved with the agility of a three-toed sloth. Immediately behind sat Lieutenant Joseph Arnold, the navigator, and Navy Commander Hank Byrnes, the weapons engineer, who would monitor the bomb during the flight.

The briefing led off with an intelligence officer unveiling a display board showing aerial photographs of the targets. The industrial section of Osaka was the primary target. The backup, in case of heavy cloud cover, was the historic city of Kyoto. Directional bomb runs were advised as Stanton calmly made notes.

A meteorology officer displayed weather charts and predicted light headwinds with scattered clouds over the targets. He also warned Dennings to expect turbulence over northern Japan. Just to be on the safe side, two B-29s had taken off an hour earlier to scout ahead and report visual assessments of weather over the flight route and cloud cover above the targets.

Dennings took over as polarized welders goggles were passed around. I wont give you a locker-room pep talk, he said, noting the relieved grins on the faces of his crew. Weve had a year of training crammed into one short month, but I know we can pull this mission off. In my humble opinion youre the best damned flight crew in the Air Force. If we all do our jobs, we may well end the war.

Then he nodded at the base chaplain, who offered a prayer for a safe and successful flight.

As the men filed out toward the waiting B-29, Dennings was approached by General Harold Morrison, special deputy to General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan bomb project.

Morrison studied Dennings for a moment. The pilots eyes showed a weariness around the edges, but they glowed with anticipation. The general held out his hand. Good luck, Major.

Thank you, sir. Well get the job done.

I dont doubt it for a second, said Morrison, forcing a confident expression. He waited for Dennings to reply, but the pilot had gone silent.

After a few awkward moments, Dennings asked, Why us General?

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