Clive Cussler · 2001 · global

Clive Cussler's 2001 Dirk Pitt adventure. When the luxury liner Emerald Dolphin bursts into flame in the Pacific, Dirk Pitt saves two thousand souls - then watches the gutted ship mysteriously sink. His search for the truth about her revolutionary engines pits him against a ruthless oil baron, and leads through New York and the Hudson into a secret bound up with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo.

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   The Pacific

   On a research cruise in the Pacific, Dirk Pitt spots the cruise liner Emerald Dolphin ablaze on the horizon and races to rescue two thousand passengers - then watches as the gutted hulk slips beneath the waves.

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   New York

   Hired to learn why the ship sank, Pitt finds the wreck vanished from the sea floor and the trail leading to New York - and to an oil baron whose Cerberus empire will kill to protect the secret of the liner's engines.

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   The Hudson

   Up the Hudson at the estate of the engines' inventor, Pitt unravels a mystery reaching back to the Norse voyages and to Jules Verne's Captain Nemo - and races to stop a plot to seize control of the world's oil.