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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Adventure Nighthawk is a hybrid vehicle: part aircraft and part space craft. It has been up in space for 3 years and now it is time to land at Vanderburg AF base in California when suddenly it goes missing. Kurt Austin and his partner Joe have been asked to come in to help NSA to find and recover Nighthawk. China and Russia are also trying to find the craft. Austin discovers that Nighthawk was harvesting some material in space that is very volatile and now the NUMA team has only 7 days to find the material before there is a catastrophic explosion. Nighthawk: NUMA Files by Clive Cussler is a great adventure involving the United States, Russia, and China and a rogue brilliant ex-agent. The author, Clive Cussler has tremendous knowledge about weaponry, cars, planes and boats and uses this knowledge in an intriguing caper from the beginning of the book until the last page. He always infuses comedy with his charming characters wit. The book is highly recommended and thus received five stars in this review. no reviews | add a review
"NUMA 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 in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. 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. 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 in an effort to avert disaster. but they may be caught in a race that no one can win"-- No library descriptions found. |
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