by Clive Cussler (Author), Dirk Cussler (Author)
Deep sea explorer and NUMA director Dirk Pitt encounters thelast direct descendants of the Ottoman dynasty as they prepair to incite a revolution in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In a.d. 327, a Roman galley with an extraordinary cargo barely escapes a pirate attack. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea.In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. What ties them all together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team are about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. From Washington to London to the treacherous shores of the Near East, dangerous men and desperate acts fill their path, and at the end of it, the most dangerous thing of all: the rumored existence of a mysterious manifest, lost long ago, which if discovered again could shed new light on early Christianity and just might change the history of the world as we know it. Filled with breathtaking suspense and extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawn is further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler."
Format: Paperback
Pages: 640
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 25 Oct 2011
ISBN 10: 0425242390
ISBN 13: 9780425242391
Cussler once again blends history, technical knowledge, bombs, bullets, and betrayal into cinematic action. --Kirkus Reviews
Dirk Cussler is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of six previous Dirk Pitt(R) adventures: Black Wind, Treasure of Khan, Arctic Drift, Crescent Dawn, Poseidon's Arrow, Havana Storm, and Odessa Sea. For the past several years, he has been an active participant and partner in his father's NUMA expeditions and has served as president of the NUMA(R) advisory board of trustees. Cussler lives in Arizona.