Corsair: Oregon Files #6 - Brossura

Cussler, Clive; Du Brul, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1405916605 ISBN 13: 9781405916608

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2013

Riassunto

Juan Cabrillo returns in Clive Cussler's Corsair, the sixth novel in the Oregon Files.

Off the coast of Somalia a battered, old freighter is boarded by pirates whose sights are set on a hefty ransom . .

But these pirates have made a mistake. For this rusting freighter is none other than Juan Cabrillo's secretive, state-of-the-art fighting ship Oregon. And Cabrillo is about to turn the tables on a deadly Somali pirate captain.

One spectacular battle later and Cabrillo finds himself embroiled in an even tougher assignment. The US Secretary of State's plane has crashed on its way to a summit in Libya - and she is missing. Cabrillo is the only one who can find her. But his search quickly involves a lost ancient jewel and a murderous plot by terrorists intent on plunging the world into chaos ...

The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Treasure of Khan, and co-author Jack Du Brul pit hero Juan Cabrillo and his crew against pirates and terrorists in the sixth novel in the Oregon Files adventure series, Corsair.

Praise for Clive Cussler:

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Clive Cussler (Author)
Clive Cussler is the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Celtic Empire; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently The Rising Sea; the Oregon Files, such as Shadow Tyrants; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase; and the recent Fargo Adventures which lastly included The Oracle. He lives in Arizona.

Jack du Brul (Author)
Jack Du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, most recently The Lightning Stones, and is the coauthor with Cussler of the Oregon Files novels Dark Watch, Skeleton Coast, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea, and The Jungle. He lives in Virginia.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

An exhilarating new adventure in the bestselling Oregon Files series

For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the Oregonand its crew face their biggest challenge yet.

Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates...who look like something else.

When the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings are well-founded. The crew locates the plane - but the Secretary of State has vanished. It turns out Libya's new Foreign Minister has other plans for the conference, ones Cabrillo can not let happen. But what does it all have to do with a 200-year-old naval battle, and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1405916605
• ISBN 13: 9781405916608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544