The Rising Sea - NUMA Files, Bk 15 Author:Clive Cussler, Graham Brown Everywhere, the waters are rising-and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. An alarming rise in the world's sea levels -- much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt-sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the... more » globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power-and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike anything else on earth, a pair of five-hundred-year-old Japanese talismans, an assassin so violent even the Yakuza has disowned him, an audacious technological breakthrough that will become a very personal nightmare for Kurt Austin - from the shark-filled waters of Asia to the high-tech streets of Tokyo to a forbidden secret island, the NUMA team must risk everything to head off the coming catastrophe.
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