Clive Cussler · 2019 · global

Clive Cussler's 2019 Dirk Pitt adventure, the last of the series. A princess flees plague-struck Egypt in 1334 BC; three thousand years later, poisoned water and murder erupt from El Salvador to the Detroit River to the banks of the Nile. Chasing the thread of an ancient secret, Dirk Pitt is drawn from the sands of Egypt to the deep lochs of Scotland to save half the world.

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   The Nile

   Three thousand years ago the princess Meritaten fled the Nile to escape a plague, carrying a strange substance - and today, tomb raiders murder an archaeological team on the same river, the first thread of an ancient mystery.

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   Detroit

   When a tanker sinks in the waterways off Detroit and poisoned water starts killing in El Salvador, Dirk Pitt is drawn into a mystery - a biotech conspiracy tampering with the world's water, bound to that ancient princess.

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   Scotland

   The tangled threads draw together at last among the rocky isles of Ireland and the deep lochs of Scotland, where Pitt and his family must unravel the ancient secret - and stop a plague that could wipe out half of humankind.