Medusa Hardcover - 2009

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers withthe "spine-tingling adventures" (Chicago Tribune) ofKurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r)Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA(r) teamfaces what may be its most perilous mission of all.

In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government-sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research ona rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears.At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attackedby an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below thesurface, its passengers-including Zavala-left to die. OnlyKurt Austin's heroic measures save them from a watery grave,but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA(r) team onthe case. He has no idea what he's just gotten them all into.A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarilyambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virusthat threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin andZavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not justtheir own skins they're trying to save-it's the lives of millions.

Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless inventionunique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yetfrom the grand master of adventure.