Clive Cusslers Desolation Code

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When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMAs findings, forcing a high-speed chasesomeone really didnt want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why?

A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMAs inner workings?

Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agencys supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital.

The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any theyve ever facedthe mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globes . . .Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation.


PRAISE FOR CLIVER CUSSLER:

'The Adventure King' Sunday Express

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

'Just about the best in the business' New York Post