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The author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series returns with an all-new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas-Juan Cabrillo. Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous... read more
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DuBrul and Cussler Together! What a great read! A great thriller/adventure and what else could you expect when you team up two of the best living thriller writers? Ok its not perfect. It is a bit comic book, but that's to be expected, and a lot of the dialog is cheesy, but over all its an... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: Chairman of The Corporation. Head of a group of mercenaries who travel the world fighting crime. ~C.H.
- Eddie Seng: Eddie Seng is one of the members of Juan Cabrillo's team of mercenaries, dubbed "The Corporation." He is the director of shore operations. ~C.H.
- Anton Savich: Anton Savich is the primary villain of Dark Watch. Long ago, working for the Soviet Union, he found a huge deposit of gold in Siberia. Knowing that he could come back later to mine it himself and make a fortune, he never reported it to his superiors and killed the other people working with him, which he made look like an accident. ~C.H.
- Juan Cabrillo: Juan Cabrillo is the chairman of The Corporation. He came up with the idea of disguising an ultra-high-tech ship as a tramp freighter with its days numbered. He got the money for this from his friend Langston Overholt at the CIA, who owed him because Juan had taken all the blame in a failed operation. Juan has a prosthetic leg, also due to altercations during his time at the CIA. ~C.H.
- Shere Singh: Shere Sing is another one of the primary villains. His band of criminals steals ships off the ocean, scraps them in his huge shipyard, and sells them for scrap steel. ~C.H.
- Max Hanley: Max Hanley is the president of the corporation. His larger size means that he spends most of his time on the ship. ~C.H.
- Mark Murphy: Mark Murphy does weapons control for the Oregon. He likes death metal music. ~C.H.
- Dr. Julia Huxley: Julia Huxley is the chief medical officer on The Oregon (the ship used by The Corporation). During Dark Watch, she is an imposter for one of the villains' wife, in a plot to break him out of jail. ~C.H.
- Jan Paulus: Add a description of this character.
- Hazni Hourani
- Hali Kasim: Operative general operations
- Rafik
- Eric Stone: operative, control room operator, General operations
- Ludmilla Demonova
- George Adams: operative, heliocopter pilot
- Maus
- Kra
- Robinson
- Kim Don Il
- Maurice: Maurice is Juan's butler aboard the Oregon. ~C.H.
- Frau Kara Isphording: Kara Isphording is found aboard a ship slowly sinking beneath the waves. It turns out that she works for British intelligence, and has been tracking the same crime ring as The Corporation. ~C.H.
- Roger Lassiter: disgraced CIA agent who delivers the meteorite to maidenhead
- Michael Trono
- Mohammad Singh: leader of muslim faith
- Draeger
- Tang
- Doc Julia Huxley: operative, medical officer
- Pulaski
- Yuri Zayysev
- Hali Kasim: operative, general operations
- Ballinger
- Franklin Lincoln: Franklin Lincoln is the head of general operations. An ex-Navy Seal, he is used in most missions. ~C.H.
- Niko Li
- Bernhard Volkmann
- Frau Isphording
- Tory (Victoria) Ballinger: rescued from sinking ship by Cabrillo.
- Richard Smith
- Walid Khalidi
- Conn
- Mike Halbert
- Hiroshi Katsui
- Pytor Federov
- Abhay Singh
- Mikhail
- Yan Luo
- Mr. Bryce
- Kevin Nixon
- Xang
- Tiny Gunderson
- boss
- Mr. Stone
- Linda Ross
- Rudolph Isphording
- Jeb Smith
- Akademik Yuri Strakhov
- Assad Muhammad
- Mohamed Hattu
- Dick Truitt
- Yuri Strakhov
- Yasir Arafat
- Langston Overholt IV
- Nikoli
- Richard Hildebrand
- Dirk Pitt
Setting & Locations edit
- Oregon
- Avalon
- China
- Sea Of Japan
- Selandria
- Zurich
- Shanghai
- Asia Star
- Russia
- United States
- Tokyo
- Taiwan
- Indonesia
- Switzerland
- Jakarta
- Zodiac
- North Korea
- Moscow
- New York
- America
- Kamchatka
- Europe
- Karamita
- Afghanistan
- Regensdorf
- Beijing
- Vladivostok
- Damascus
- Hiro
- Pyongyang
- Koreans
- Uav
- Soviet Union
- London
- Hollywood
- Somalia
First Sentence edit
The aging Dassault Falcon executive jet drifted smoothly from the sky and touched down at the Sunan International Airfield, twelve miles north of Pyongyang.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 9 in The Oregon Files. (standard series)
Preceded by Sacred Stone, and followed by Skeleton Coast.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Clive Cussler (Author)
- Jack B. Du Brul (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: Nov-2005
ISBN: 978-0425226278
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: Nov-2005
ISBN: 978-0425226278
Page Count: 464
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3553.U75 D37 2005
- Dewey: 813.54
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