TY - BOOK AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Brown,Graham TI - Nighthawk T2 - A novel from the NUMA Files SN - 9780718182885 (hardback) U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - [London] PB - Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House KW - Austin, Kurt, KW - National Underwater and Marine Agency KW - fast KW - Fiction KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - FastBack collection KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) KW - Adventure stories KW - Jet planes, Military - Technological innovations - Fiction KW - National Underwater and Marine Agency - Fiction KW - Antimatter - Fiction KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) - Fiction KW - Marine scientists - Fiction KW - National Underwater and Marine Agency Fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - Marine scientists KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) Fiction KW - Aircraft accidents KW - Transport planes KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - lcgft N1 - "A novel from the NUMA files" -- Cover; Also issued online N2 - When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, NUMA operatives Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't-that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions ER -