Iceberg

Dirk Pitt, an operative for NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is called into action when a long-missing luxury yacht is found frozen in a million-ton mass of ice, its crew members incinerated at their posts, and its deadly top-secret cargo missing.

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Main Author: Cussler, Clive
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berkley Books, 2004.
Ã1975.
Edition:Berkley mass-market ed.
Series:Dirk Pitt Advenure ; bk. 3
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Summary:Dirk Pitt, an operative for NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is called into action when a long-missing luxury yacht is found frozen in a million-ton mass of ice, its crew members incinerated at their posts, and its deadly top-secret cargo missing.
Item Description:"A Dirk Pitt novel"--Cover.
Physical Description:340 p. ; 18 cm.
Audience:Young Adult
Young Adult.
ISBN:9780425197387
0425197387
9780329639563
0329639560
Author Notes:Clive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois on July 15, 1931. He attended Pasadena City College for two years before enlisting in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. After his discharge from the military, he worked first as a copywriter and later as a creative director for two of the nation's most successful advertising agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards, including one at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

He began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was published in 1996. He has written over 50 books including the Dirk Pitt series, the NUMA Files series, Oregon Files series, Isaac Bell series, and the Fargo Adventure series.

He is the Chairman of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency), a non-profit group which he founded. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered over 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites.

Clive Cussler died on February 24, 2020 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography)