TY - BOOK AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Cussler,Dirk TI - Arctic drift SN - 0399155295 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Global warming KW - Fiction KW - Marine biologists KW - Pitt, Dirk (Fictitious character) KW - Arctic regions KW - Northwest Passage KW - Adventure fiction KW - gsafd KW - Suspense fiction N2 - A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man--and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them ER -