Título: Serpent: A Novel from the NUMA Files
Autor: Clive Cussler
Sinopse: From the classic novel Raise the Titanic! to Flood Tide, Clive Cussler and his fictional alter ego Dirk Pitt® have earned legions of fans worldwide. Now, the author of numerous consecutive bestsellers unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new series of unrelenting action and edge-of-your-seat thrills. On the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket lies the battered remains of the Italian luxury liner, Andrea Doria. But few know that within its bowels rests a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity -- a treasure that now holds the key to a puzzle that is costing people their lives. For Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA) exploration team, the killing begins when he makes a daring rescue of a beautiful marine archaeologist. The target of a powerful Texas industrialist named Halcon, Nina Kirov was attacked off the coast of Morocco after her discovery of a carved stone head that may prove Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover America. Soon Kurt and Nina embark on a deadly mission to uncover Halcon's masterful plan -- an insidious scheme that would have him carve out a new nation from the southwest United States and Mexico, and ride to power on a wave of death and destruction. With Austin's elite NUMA crew attacking the murderous conspiracy from different sides, an extraordinary truth emerges: that Columbus may have made a fifth, unknown voyage to America in search of a magnificent treasure. And that the silent, steel hull of the Andrea Doria not only holds the answer to what the explorer may have found -- but the fate of the United States itself.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Serpent: A Novel from the NUMA Files”, de Clive Cussler, publicado pela editora Pocket Books, em 1999 e com 474 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Pocket Books
Páginas: 474
Ano: 1999
Edição: 1
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0671026704
ISBN13: 9780671026707
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Pocket Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense, o thriller psicológico e a fantasia urbana, com frequentes incursões em histórias de amor e dramas pessoais. As sinopses sugerem um catálogo que valoriza personagens em conflitos intensos, seja contra ameaças externas ou dilemas internos, com ritmo geralmente ágil e tom que varia do sombrio ao emocionalmente carregado. Há obras que exploram desde investigações criminais e tramas de vingança até romances contemporâneos e fantasia sobrenatural, criando um contraste entre o realismo tenso e o imaginário fantástico.
