Flood Tide Author:Clive Cussler Running time: Approx 4.5 hours on 4 cassettes — c. 1997 — Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River that can only enhance his status as the grand master of adventure fiction. — The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese... more » smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in FLOOD TIDE is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the Unites States.
Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructinga huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. As Pitt prepares for a dramatic showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered.