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Nighthawk : a novel from the NUMA Files : a Kurt Austin adventure / Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NUMA files, [#14] | Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover | Cussler, Clive. Kurt Austin adventures ; Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Large print editionDescription: 591 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432838881
  • 1432838881
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't--that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Cussler, Clive NU 14 Available 33111008791044
Total holds: 0

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Kurt Austin AdventureNUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything to avert disaster.

"When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't--that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions"-- Provided by publisher.

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