Black wind

Black Wind
    By: Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler
    Clive Cussler’s dazzling new Dirk Pitt adventure
    “Clive the Mighty!” hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler’s last Dirk Pitt novel, Trojan Odyssey. “Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous.” Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and Black Wind sets the bar even higher.
    In the waning days of World War II, unbeknownst to all but a handful of people, the Japanese tried a last, desperate measure. Two submarines were sent to the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus, their mission to unleash hell.
    Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost.
    Someone knows about the subs and what they carried, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in mind for the prize inside-a plan that could reshape America, and the world, as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk … and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA.
    Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he encountered such pure evil-until now.
    Filled with breathtaking suspense and extraordinary imagination, Black Wind is yet further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
    Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of twenty-seven other books, including the Dirk Pitt’* adventure Trojan Odyssey, the Kurt Austin novel Lost City, and the new Oregon series novels Golden Buddha and Sacred Stone. He is also the author of the nonfiction Sea Hunters and Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler has discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. He lives in Arizona.
    Dirk Cussler, an MBA from Berkeley, worked for many years in the financial arena, and now devotes himself full-time to writing. For the last several years, he has been an active participant and partner in his father’s NUMA expeditions and served as president of the NUMA advisory board of trustees. He lives in Arizona.
    Jacket design 2004 Laurence Ratzkin Jacket illustration a. 2004 Craig White
    Photograph of the authors Paul Peregrine/ Peregrine Studios
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    DIRK PITT ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

Trojan Odyssey

Valhalla Rising

Atlantis Found

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
    KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER WITH PAUL KEMPRECOS

Lost City

White Death

Fire Ice

Blue Gold Serpent
    OREGON FILES ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER WITH CRAIG DIRGO

Sacred Stone

Golden Buddha
    NONFICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CRAIG DIR GO

The Sea Hunters II
    Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

The Sea Hunters
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Cussler, Clive. Black wind / Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler.
    p. cm.
    ISBN 0-399-15259-8
    1. Pitt, Dirk (Fictitious character)-Fiction. I. Cussler, Dirk. II. Title.
    PS3553.U75B56 2004 2004053536
    813’.54-dc22
    Printed in the United States of America 13579 10 8642
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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the