By Clive Cussler
The exciting new event from the number 1 long island occasions- bestselling writer. Clive Cussler's stories of the Oregon and its crew-"the smart, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tricky, tech-savvy scuffling with women and men" (Publishers Weekly)-have made fanatics of thousands of readers. however the Oregon's 6th experience is its so much remarkable one but. On December 7, 1941, 5 brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington nation make a unprecedented discovery, in basic terms to be interrupted through information of Pearl Harbor. within the current, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite tv for pc within the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a stunning revelation of his personal. His seek to untangle the secret leads him, first, to that small island and its mystery, after which a lot farther again, to an historic chinese language expedition-and a curse that turns out to have survived for greater than years. If Cabrillo's crew is profitable in its quest, the gift may be incalculable. If no longer . . . the single gift is demise.
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The techs don’t know yet what went wrong,” Overholt continued. ” “You said it. About a hundred miles south of Paraguay in some of the thickest jungle of the Amazon basin. ” “I know what you’re about to ask, but be reasonable. The debris is going to be spread over a couple thousand square miles in bush that our spy satellites can’t penetrate. ” “I do, because here’s the kicker. ” “Only reliable power source we had for this particular bird. The NASA eggheads tried every conceivable alternative, but it came back to using a tiny amount of plutonium and using the heat off its decay to run the satellite’s systems.
On the bright side, they so overengineered the containment vessel that it is virtually indestructible. It wouldn’t even notice a rocket blowing up around it. “As you can well imagine, the administration doesn’t want it known that we sent aloft a satellite that could have potentially spread radiation across a good-sized swath of the most pristine environment on the planet. The other concern is that the plutonium not fall into the Argentines’ hands. We suspect they have restarted their nuclear weapons program.
His hand brushed smooth stone. The very bottom of the pit. Unlike his brothers, he had only half believed the stories about pirate treasure buried in the pit. That was until he saw the carved niche. Now he wasn’t sure what he believed. When he’d set out, getting to the bottom and proving himself against generations of ancestors who had tried and failed would have been success enough. But now? He swept his arm in a wider arc, straining to feel anything lying in the silty muck. Nearby, Don was doing the same, his arm buried to the shoulder between some branches, his mouth a tight line of concentration.