Corsair : a novel from the Oregon files / Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul.
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TextSeries: Oregon files ; 6.Cussler, Clive. Oregon files ; Oregon filesPublication details: London : Michael Joseph, 2009Description: 437 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780718154455; 9780718154448Subject(s): Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Terrorism -- Prevention -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: ADVENTURE / THRILLER. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia and the pirates...who look like something else.When the U. S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane - but the Secretary of State has vanished. It turns out Libya's new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, ones Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a 200-year-old naval battle, and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him, Cabrillo full circle into history and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.
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ADVENTURE / THRILLER. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia and the pirates...who look like something else.When the U. S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane - but the Secretary of State has vanished. It turns out Libya's new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, ones Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a 200-year-old naval battle, and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him, Cabrillo full circle into history and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.
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