Cyclops - Dirk Pitt #8 Author:Clive Cussler After his adventures in the best-selling "Deep Six", the indomitable Dirk Pitt returns in a new, even more enthralling spellbinder. — It begins when a noted financial publisher and adventurer, Raymond LeBaron, sets off in an antique blimp in search of the "Cyclops", a U.S. Navy collier which vanished in mysterious circumstances in 1918 near Cuban... more » waters--and which may have had on board a fabulous treasure.
LeBaron and his crew also vanish, in circumstances that are at once puzzling and alarming and which lead a reluctant Dirk Pitt into one of the most extraordinary adventures of his career--an adventure that leads him step by step, in constant danger, to the discovery of a secret base on the moon, a Soviet plot against Castro that endangers the peace of the world, and the unveiling of the treasure itself....
With the skilled hand of a master storyteller, Clive Cussler has woven in "Cyclops" his most complex and suspenseful plot, linking the fascinating behind-the-headlines facts of the Star Wars and the Cold War with a compelling story of greed and passion--and a secret so amazing that it has been kept from the President of the U.S. himself. The bizarre chain of events that begins with LeBaron's disappearance explodes into a battle between the Soviet Union and the U.S. for possession of the moon and ends with a blazing, cliff-hanging race against time to prevent an awesome tragedy. It almost defeats Dirk Pitt and takes him from the inner councils of the White House to a confrontation with Fidel Castro himself....
It is Clive Cussler's most ambitious novel to date.« less