Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences...
Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts.

Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans succeeding...

Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawn is a barnstorming read starring Dirk Pitt for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn. Dirk Pitt #21. Hachette Digital, ISBN: 9781408732991 (April, 2024), eBook, $5.99.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
An ancient cargo long thought lost is about to be found. With terrible consequences...
Dirk Pitt is in the Middle East doing routine survey work when a spot of lucks leads him to an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, Pitt interrupts a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. Suddenly he's at the centre of a race to acquire a series of ancient and legendary artifacts. Meanwhile, a series of mosques across Turkey and Egypt are blown up, stoking tensions that may push the whole region to the brink of war.

As Pitt comes to realize that the search for these artifacts and the bombings are related, he finds himself in a desperate bid to prevent a brother and sister team restoring the glory days of the Ottoman Empire for their own fanatical ends...

Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawn is a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn. A Dirk Pitt Novel. Penguin, ISBN: 9780241951316 (October, 2011), 608 p., £7.99.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
A priceless treasure recovered. A powerful empire resurrected. Dirk Pitt is on the move.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn. A Dirk Pitt Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425242391 (October, 2011), 627 p., $9.99.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
A.D. 327, a Roman galley, carrying an extraordinary and priceless cargo, barely escapes a vicious pirate attack. 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. Present day, a cluster of mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions.

Does anything link these terrifying events together?

NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artefacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly suggest the rise of a fundamentalist movement. A movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire and reveal the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again may change the history of the world as we know it.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn. A Dirk Pitt Novel. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 9780718157401 (November, 2010), 560 p., £18.99.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn (USA 2010)

From the Publisher:
Dirk Pitt returns in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times--bestselling author.
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together?

NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again... just may change the history of the world as we know it.

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Crescent Dawn. A Dirk Pitt Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399157141 (November, 2010), 560 p., $27.95.