Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken—the men say—by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they’re confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine—culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies.
READ THE ELECTRIFYING NEW ADVENTURE OF THE NUMA CREW, FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLERAs head of the US National Underwater and Maritime Agency's Special Assignments Team, Kurt Austin is no stranger to danger. Kurt's global assignments often bring him head-to-head with dastardly attempts to use the world's resources for evil, but he's never failed on a mission yet. . .‘Cussler is hard to beat’ Daily Mail----A terrifying discovery.A cutting-edge weapon.A life-or-death showdown in the skies . . .A distress call in the Caribbean sends the NUMA team of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala to a damaged freighter. But, instead of being greeted by a grateful crew, they are attacked by a group of paranoid, disoriented and deranged men lying in wait.What has driven the crew to attack their rescuers?Is it mutiny, madness, or something more sinister?The answer leads Kurt and Joe to a cadre of Cuban mercenaries, and a plan to use modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine. Faced with an dangerous enemy coming from the skies, this could be the NUMA crew’s toughest task yet . . .----PRAISE FOR CLIVE CLUSSER ‘The Adventure King’ Sunday Express‘Just about the best in the business’ New York Post