Black Wind (Dirk Pitt novel)
First Edition Hardcover
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| Author | Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler |
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| Cover artist | Lawrence Ratzkin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dirk Pitt Novels |
| Genre | Adventure, Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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November 30, 2004 1st Edition Hardcover |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 530 pp (Hardcover edition) |
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| OCLC | 56108170 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.U75 B56 2004 |
| Preceded by | Trojan Odyssey |
| Followed by | Treasure of Khan |
Black Wind is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. This book centers on a relatively new character to the book series, Dirk Pitt, Jr.
The novel centers around a Imperial Japanese plot to launch a biological warfare attack on the United States Dirk Pitt Jr., his father, and his sister Summer must foil the plot and expose and stop the antagonists before a deadly toxin can be spread in released over Los Angeles.
The story’s historical prologue takes place in December 1944. The commanding officer of the I-403, a Japanese I-400 class submarine, is given orders to launch a mysterious attack on the United States, a mission involving Japan’s notorious biological warfare group, Unit 731. The I-403 reaches America’s northwest coast, but is sunk before the mission can be carried out.
The story begins in the present-day Aleutian islands, where a team of CDC researchers, including beautiful field epidemiologist Sarah Matson, are unexpectedly infected by a deadly and mystery illness; they are rescued by Dirk Pitt Jr. (hereinafter Pitt Jr.), who is nearby on a NUMA research vessel. Pitt Jr, with friend and coworker Jack Dahlgren, return to the site to investigate, but their helicopter is downed by gunfire from a mysterious trawler. They survive, eventually determining that the illness resulted from a toxic compound of cyanide and smallpox.
In Japan, the U.S. ambassador is golfing with his British counterpart when he is assassinated by a sniper named Tongju. Tongju later assassinates the ambassador’s deputy and a semiconductor executive, leaving clues that appear to identify him as a member of a Japanese terrorist group.
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