Flood Tide

Following the runaway success of his first non-fiction book, The Sea Hunters, 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 Cussler's status as the grandmaster of adventure.The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in Flood Tide is to traffic in human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States.

Tracking the man's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location?

The trail of villainy then leads to a race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure, including the legendary bones of the Peking Man that vanished at the beginning of World War II, when he fled China in 1949. As Pitt prepares for a final dramatic showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered.

With a dozen consecutive New York Times bestsellers and more than 70 million copies of his books in print, Clive Cussler expanded his vast readership last year with his true-life account of fascinating shipwrecks he has discovered -- whetting the appetites of his millions of fans for this enthralling, intricately plotted new Dirk Pitt adventure.