Pre-order the explosive new thriller in the NUMA series now from the No. 1 Sunday Times
bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler 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 NUMA's findings forcing a high-speed
chase-someone really didn't 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 NUMA's inner workings? Kurt Joe and even Max the
agency's 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 they've ever faced-the mind of a machine. A new
terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated then the
entire globe's . . .Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation. PRAISE FOR CLIVER
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'Just about the best in the business' New York Post