Clive Cussler · 1997 · global

Clive Cussler's 1997 Dirk Pitt adventure. Rescuing an undercover agent from a smuggler's compound at Orion Lake in Washington State, NUMA's Dirk Pitt takes on Qin Shang, a Chinese magnate who traffics human beings across the globe. The hunt runs from the ports of Hong Kong to a mysterious seaport rising in the Louisiana bayous and a mad plot to unleash the Mississippi.

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   Hong Kong

   From the teeming docks of Hong Kong, the ruthless magnate Qin Shang runs a global empire built on human misery - smuggling desperate Chinese immigrants across the oceans and selling them into bondage in ports around the world.

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   Orion Lake

   At a secret compound on Orion Lake in Washington State, Dirk Pitt stumbles onto Shang's trafficking network and rescues a captured undercover agent from its drowned prison - and earns the smuggler's murderous attention.

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   Louisiana

   The trail leads to a seaport rising in the Louisiana bayous, and Pitt races up the Mississippi to expose Shang's mad plan to reroute the great river - and the treasure ship hidden at its heart.