01650cam a2200337 i 4500 295896264 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 951214s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95030057 9780684802978 $30.00 068480297X $30.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Cussler, Clive, 1931-2020. Shock wave [BOOK] : a novel / Clive Cussler. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996. 537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Dirk Pitt ; 13 On an expidition to find the source of a mysterious plague killing the seals and whales of the Wendell Sea, Dirk Pitt finds a party of cruise ship passengers abandoned on an icy Antarctic island with no hope of escape. Pitt rescues the party from certain death, but soon discovers a connection between the underwater slaughter and one of the passengers, whose family has built an immense tropical diamond dynasty in the wake of a 19th-century high sea tragedy. In a deadly race against time, only Dirk Pitt can stop the family's murderous mining operations and head off a disaster that will kill millions. 20100106. Ultrasonics Fiction. Scuba divers Fiction. Diamond industry and trade Fiction. Antarctica Fiction. Islands of the Pacific Fiction. Australia Fiction. Dirk Pitt ; 13.